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They have a bad habit of coming back from the dead in an even more horrific version.
McConnell has an opinion on this he’s unable to express…for reasons.
They have a serious lacking of candidates with any charisma left. They’re too ghoulishly out of touch.
Trump was their most charismatic candidate (lol), and when he’s gone they have a bunch of unlikable dweebs who don’t even know how to pretend to be relatable.
The Republican party was in a very similar position in 2008, with Bush being toxic. Yesterday's election is in fact being compared with the wipeout in 2008. And yet, the Republican party did not die in 2008.
Bush II campaigned on "no foreign adventures" and "no nationbuilding", then went into Iraq and did exactly that. Along with all kinds of corruption and incompetence.
Don't get me wrong, the Republican party absolutely deserves to die - anybody who votes for them is evil and an idiot. But recent history teaches us that pronouncing their demise can be premature.
It’s a little different now though because of how Trump committed various political sins. He was unapologetic. He doubled down. He was a dismissive jackass and a bully. He pulled every political trick republicans have always used, but the execution was so poor even his own base knew started to recognize what he was doing, like sexualizing candidates to make them seem more desirable to dumbfucks.
But he’s so loud and obvious there was never any chance to launder those behaviors into anything other than “Trump is a dumbass.” So next time the republicans try this shit, it will compared to Trump and dissected immediately.
Trump ruined it for all of them by being the worst political magician imaginable.