They are putting in place legislation to protect employers if an employee gets covid i think (republican condition to allow extra covid relief funding)
The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated
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The last time they surrendered the presidency and legislative branches to Democrats, it birthed the tea party movement. The next time they surrendered the presidency in 2012, Ryan and Preibus drew up prospectus at the GOP convention to diversify the outreach to college educated, high earning, socially liberal yet fiscally conservative minorities and it all ended with the party embracing Trump.
You're being a bit generous when there really isn't a place for them to pivot than going back to their core and stop shouting the silent stuff loudly or exposing their corruption so brazenly as they are doing under Trump's protection.
That's a good point, but I somehow don't see there being enough support for another Tea Party movement or a perfect storm of events that gave rise to Trumpism. Enough people have left the party over the past four years (GOP base is now something like 28% from 33% pre-Trump), to where the party will need to moderate away from cultish demagoguery to be a player during future elections. In many ways, the rise and fall of Trump is a necessary step to permanently banish far right politics away from the political mainstream.
If that happens, the margins between the two parties could become even slimmer unless it forces the Democrats to embrace a further leftward shift. I keep imagining the GOP progressing enough to embrace a fiscally lean conservative ideology paired with a hardline interpretation of the constitution while shedding the racism, religion and corruption, the make up of the current supreme court is a firm chance for it.
Trump's 32% supporters will need a new home.
They generally seem like they would be happier if they re given their own country. How about we send them to Aussie? The crazy will be blend in easily.
You're forgetting one thing.
Biden (if he wins) will inherit a messy divided America, a pandemic torn country which by then would be too widespread, a tanking economic, the trade war, Russia, an alienated Europe, a pissed off world. On top of that he'll still have to deal with the 32% something of Trump supporter that exists in the government, senate, and house. Even if they're majority you really can't outright instruct them GOP senators to do as they wish.
All the GOP needs to do is point the finger at Biden not delivering and the gullible Americans will be back to voting Republican
I for one don't think blame the Democrat president is going to work out well as a strategy for the GOP when it is an old white dude.
Doesn't matter, he's from the enemy party.
I agree that I don't necessarily see hardline conservative populism disappear after Trump. It won't be as batshit crazy, but dominant right-wing media anyway push a lot of the same hardcore narratives that Trumpists like, and a lot of what was once Tea Party extremism has now become pretty mainstream on the right. I don't see them quickly swivelling back to a more reasonable conservatism.
Also, the GOP already concluded after recent elections that they need to change course and start appealing to Hispanic and black voters to stand a chance in the future, and instead their voters went against their establishment, got Trump in, and won the election with a full majority (I mean House, Senate, presidency). So the GOP won't necessarily think a change of course is required; they might just go looking for a Trump without the obvious narcissism and more general unpredictability and idiocy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...mists-attacks-deaths-database-leftwing-antifa
Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years
As Trump rails against ‘far-left’ fascism, new database shows leftwing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by rightwing extremists
Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years
As Trump rails against ‘far-left’ fascism, new database shows leftwing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by rightwing extremists
It work against Clinton , doesn't even take much more than a harmless email and lockerup chant
Most people that are Anti-Trump should also be Anti-Pelosi. She’s also a ghoul. She just plays politics better.
Things must be serious
Meh. He may have agreed to his advisor's demands to get them to pipe down but he won't be able to resist Twitter, he's far to much of a narcissist.
The strategy he as now, is clearly not working. Maybe he will need to bite the bullet and act like a traditional politician.
He sent a letter to the Iranians telling them the deal they made with the Obama administration would not be honored the moment he was out of office. If this guy got a chunk of power he would happily run a shadow government and wouldn't give a feck.
You mean like a pivot?
Sounds like me saying I’m going to stick with the running this time.
brb need another beer.
brb need another beer.
The Clinton's had a whole right wing multi million dollar industry set up against them for the last 30 years and we had a black man with a foreign Muslim name. Easy pickings for the idiots. Biden not so much. He's a dizzy cnut but the other is a malicious dizzy cnut. It's an easy way out for them that they don't deserve.
The sooner her and Schumer are benched the better. Mid terms are just as important and both of them need to step aside and let someone with a pulse fight the good fight. But if they win the Senate and all those house bills sitting there get voted on and passed then I don't see the Democrats telling either of them to step aside.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: sources are telling us that Trump "is going to eat his vegetables if he's allowed to eat ice-cream while watching television."
Trump is addicted to Twitter like he is to fast food. He just can't help himself.
It's not the first time he's said he'll give Twitter a rest. Think he mentioned this as he took up the Presidency but look how that went.
It's not the first time he's said he'll give Twitter a rest. Think he mentioned this as he took up the Presidency but look how that went.
Retake the confederacy with their ar-15's?
Quelle Surprise. cnut.
Trump says he hasn’t seen his recently Covid diagnosed National Security Advisor lately. And doesn’t seem to see why this is a problem..
Yes. It's probably all he as left. Not going to work, but you know how MSM falls for this kind of thing.
If the WaPo is correct, he’s pivoting towards being concerned about the pandemic in toss-up states.
Even if those numbers are accurate, they'd be for the general population rather than the voting population. Unfortunately, the GOP can probably sustain that drop without much loss in election possibilities with the arcane electoral college/senate plus voter suppression and special interest money shifting the undecideds.
It's not going to happen. Donald Trump simply doesn't have it in him to be "Presidential" for more than a day or two. He's also incredibly thin-skinned, so it's a guarantee that at some point someone will say something about him, and he'll be literally unable to stop himself from responding.
That is true. He only got concerned when Texas, Florida showed signs of the virus.
Trump is now impersonating Denald
Illegal 
In the meantime it's clear Donnie is draining that swamp and watching out for the little guys when the billionaires are desperately flocking to keep him in place :
CNBC: Top CEOs ramp up GOP donations as Biden threatens to scale back corporate tax cuts. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/top...en-threatens-to-scale-back-corp-tax-cuts.html
CNBC: Top CEOs ramp up GOP donations as Biden threatens to scale back corporate tax cuts. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/top...en-threatens-to-scale-back-corp-tax-cuts.html
Oh no, you keep them crazy Americans outThey generally seem like they would be happier if they re given their own country. How about we send them to Aussie? The crazy will be blend in easily.
Find Jesus!
I liked the "Your're a... You're ... A Caucausian!"
Watching them try to process the fact a white person was holding the sign. It was like they had been betrayed
Sad indication of that area though
Sad indication of that area though
Apparently he made up the Yankees first pitch invite and then declined it himself all because Fauci got invited to throw the first pitch at the Nationals game. I've seen 8 year olds with better coping mechanisms.
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