WHY THE FORMER GOP NO LONGER EXISTS

…One of the two Senators that Trump has driven from office.

 

Traditional conservative values are why Donald J. Trump was able to get elected.

 

I am finally starting to understand how Donald J. Trump can act as he does and get away with it.

 

First, let’s try and answer the question:  “Why is a marginally world-educated man, that lies about every other word, that refuses to admit or apologize when he is proven wrong, a man that has no political expertise and a total lack of foreign diplomacy, how does he survive as America’s Commander-in-Chief?”

 

Well, let’s take a look at the current two US political parties:

 

The Democrats lost the game decades ago when the controlling GOP re-drew the House election districts with the most partisan gerrymandering approach in over 50 years.

 

Then the Republicans spent a fortune as they succeeded in going after many state elections positions and state governorships.

 

Years later, after they completed this task, they then decided to never compromise with the nation’s first non-white Democratic president and the final result for the GOP is now as follows:

 

The republicans now Have:

 

·       More state positions than the Democrats.

·       More governorships

·       They control the US House of Representatives

·       They control the US Senate

·       They control the White House

·       They have confirmed that the US Supreme Court will remain mostly conservative

 

But going back to the first question, “How does the current president stay in control and why do the other Republicans not complain about his not becoming the president that they had envisioned?”

 

Well, let’s now look at who is still supporting the president.

 

Donald Trump’s overall approval rating is the worst ever for a 1^st year president at 34%.  But that rating includes everyone including independents, Democrats and Republicans.

 

However, when all the Republicans only are asked about their approval, ~70%-80% of them have said they would continue to support the president no matter how he acts.

 

How can that be and why are two very conservative and well respected Republican Senators failing to run again for office, and this is mainly because of Donald J. Trump?

 

Well, it starts with how a novice Donald Trump got elected over all those other conservative candidates?

 

The two conservative senators that are leaving the US Senate are Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee.  As conservative Republicans they both have said they believe in the following:  smaller government, free trade, Immigration, free markets and personal freedoms.  These are not just their beliefs, these had also been the basic foundation of the traditional Republican Party.  (Yes, the same traditional GOP that Stephen Bannon has vowed to “Primary” all traditional Republicans and to throw them out of office.  He wants to repeat what he did in the special election in Alabama that got the bigot and racist Judge Roy Moore chosen to run against the Democrat later this year.)

 

Bannon and even Trump’s goal is to “Drain the Washington Swamp” of the current conservative GOP Republicans, and replace them with elected, extreme, Nationalistic, “America First”, isolationist senators and representatives.

 

The reality about those that elected Donald Trump, is that they do not believe in the traditional values of the Republican party.  The voters that put Trump in office feel differently about those traditional, conservative Republican values. To them:

 

·       Smaller Government:  That means a government that takes away their benefits like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and possibly the health care that Trump had promised his voters.  (Which was a very big lie.)

 

·       Free Trade:  That’s what kept their wages from increasing over the past 20 years.

 

·       Free Markets:  That’s what took all their factory jobs away to other countries.

 

·       Immigration:  That how they lost all their jobs to foreigners coming into our country and why they need The Wall!

 

·       Personal Freedoms: The one area that everyone agrees on.

 

I other words, the reason that the Republican party seems split is that it is!!!   And those that want to keep their jobs in government understand that if they go after Trump, they may lose their positions.  All those items that were formally the foundation of the traditional Republican party, are exactly why Donald Trump was elected over all those highly qualified Republican candidates.

 

So, what is the answer to this gigantic conundrum?

 

Well, whatever it is, it will take time.  You will recall that it took time to get his far, it will take time to reverse it.

 

And unless the special investigation of Trump and Russia becomes reality, or there is some obstruction of justice that removes Trump from office, get ready for him to run again in 2020.

 

The only other remote possibility is if things get so bad that the 25^th amendment would get Trump removed, or if the Democrats get control of the Senate and/or the House.

 

But even then, it would take months or years to make things happen.

 

Watch this space.

 

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