there may be an anti-elitist/anti-corporate base of something > On Feb 13, 2021, at 8:29 PM, Michael Meeropol <[email protected]> wrote: > > The really "interesting" question for us is whether the corporate wing of the > Republican Party is class conscious enough to really FREEZE OUT the Trumpies? > Do they have the coherence to really say that the Hawley's, Cruz's, -=-- > more immediately, the members of the House who voted against impeachment will > get NO MORE MONEY from the "fat cats"? --- Or is there enough of a split > that the corporate Republicans will not be able to DOMINATE the Trumpie > Republicans. > > It appears at this point that the Trumpie Republicans have the "mass" of > voters --- especially Republican primary voters --- > > If the corporate wing of the Republican Party cannot starve the Trumpies for > funds, will they be disciplined enough to support candidates espousing > "traditional Repubican values" (whatever they are --- I think they're mostly > propaganda, not "real" values) as third party "spoiler" candidates running to > deny Trumpie Republicans rel-election EVEN IF that means the Democrats will > end up with larger majorities in the national government and even take over > some state governments. That's a tall order because these "corporate > Republicans" and their candidates will almost certainly lose and the result > will be Democratic majorities --- > > But if they are truly serious, they will have to suck it up and do it until > the Trump party goes the way of the Whigs (in the last gasp of the Whig Party > in 1852 they were DESTROYED --- it took 8 years for the Repubican Party to > mount a successful national campaign). > > The only (not very good) analogy I can think of was the refusal of anti-war > Democrats to support Hubert Humprey in 1968 --- and even then because the > AFL-CIO was a lot stronger then that it became later, he almost won! That > ended up forcing the Dems to nominate a truly anti-war candidate in 1972 --- > who of course got crushed .... > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 5:14 PM Jim Farmelant <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I think that the GOP is heading towards a split and may well soon become two > separate parties with one party arising from the GOP's corporate wing and the > other party from its white nationalist Trumpist wing. > > >
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