The Post-Trump Republican Party

I wrote this in the youtube comments but I find it refreshing that you're a real republican who chooses your party based on policy preference. I can hang with "Nikki Haley Republicans" who are in the good zone on NatSec and energy. Is that the trick of finding harmony on both sides of the aisle? Get the people who believe energy security = national security in a room? Energy security hawks don't find Trump to be a nationally secure option.

Thx for making the video; good insight. My biggest take-away is the optimism of the GOP members that everything will be alright and the worst case scenario of t-bag being reelected really won't be that bad. I just keep remembering the pillar of smoke rising from our house of Congress and wonder why other GOP members aren't stepping in and telling that 1/3 to go get their own party. Would 2/3 of the GOP vote for Putin if he could beat Biden?

The people of both parties deserve to have the ability to Veto the cast of candidates. "none of the above" should have real meaning, and not be, as it is now, a disregarded vote. Do you think Trump could win against a "none of the above"?

The world needs Trump to fail, end of.

You are right that we need a functioning Republican Party and that Good People have to be around to make it happen. But it is a fraught choice. There is a point at which loyalty to something that has become evil degenerates into complicity. That is probably not true for the rank-and-file Nikki Haley Republicans, but it is true for the vast majority of Republicans in senior political roles. It is collaboration with evil when almost all Republicans in Congress bow to the Election Lie even though they know full well that it is indeed a lie. It is collaboration with evil when they support a candidate who announces that he will be a dictator (whether for a day, for a presidential term, or for the rest of his life) and who showed on January 6 that he is willing to act on it. It is collaboration with evil when they acquiesce in the "Gleichschaltung" of institutions being prepared by people like Bannon and Obergruppenführer Stephen Miller. Nor is Trump the only issue facing the Party; he is merely the most immediate threat. The Republican Party has been deteriorating into the Party of No, of uninhibited division, and of intending to compromise the ability of government to function since the 1990s. I get the idea of fiscal conservatism. But the idea that the only way to rein in government is to starve it (à la Grover Norquist) is not constructive, especially when it is combined with the dramatically increasing expenses that have typically occurred under Republican presidents. The idea of vilifying Democrats at a moral level (starting with Willie Horton) is not constructive. I once was a Republican myself, but have become repelled by the Party's direction some time ago. Think carefully on which side of history you want to be. If you and others can save the Republican Party, I will celebrate and buy you a beer or ten. But I'm afraid that beating MAGA will not be sufficient.