Myrensis wrote:The Marlborough wrote:If Trump created his own party that obtained considerable support and local success (quite likely) you can bet your ass the Justice Democrats will force a similar split among Democrats.
There are a grand total of 7 Justice Democrats in Congress, all in the House, and it's not at all certain they'd keep their seats running 3rd party.
Trump has the advantage that the 'radical fringe' of the GOP is actually the bedrock of their base. We have 3 election cycles now demonstrating pretty handily that the same is not true in the Democratic Party.
Trump forming a 'Patriot Party' would almost certainly lead to devastation for Republicans, the Rose Twitter Party is not like to seriously affect Democrats.
I'm keen to see him try, honestly. I think we kind of forget that he was part of a massive primary field and that base that he formed wasn't substantial, it was just greater than the individual others. There was no Clyburn to unite the party against a single alternative in their case.
But thanks to a discipline in the Republican party dating back to Reagan, once Trump was their guy, he was their guy. That way too often lauded 74 million was the combination of support for Trump and support for the Republican Party right or wrong, even if that was eroded enough for Trump to lose the election. In fact, Republicans in general did better than Trump.
Let him peel his wing out of the party. I think we might find that the ones that were do or die Trump and not just do or die republicans are not as significant as we OR the Republicans think. And they'll all learn this just as they've sacrificed their influence. Plus, the split electorate gives the Biden administration some breathing room and maybe some harder to undo good can be put in place before America's short attention span puts the Republicans back in charge again.