Good question.
After 3 and half years of the Trump presidency the collapse which was a long time in the making has sped up to a feverish pace.
I have tried to keep track of the demise……
https://lobotero.com/2018/11/06/where-has-the-gop-gone/
https://lobotero.com/2020/06/29/what-is-happening-to-the-gop/
I have written many times that the GOP of my grandfather’s day (that would be the 1956 party) was a good and responsible party and then Reagan appeared and it has been in decline ever since…..
A political scientist at the beginning of the Trump residency stated that his, Trump’s, racism will help bring a demise of a once proud party.
Citing the work of a University of a Washington political scientist, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank said Donald Trump and his racist rhetoric has accelerated the decline of the Republican party in a country that is seeing major demographic changes and because white voters are increasingly turned off by it.
As Milbank wrote, four years ago Christopher Parker, who is Black, predicted a Trump candidacy would “do more to advance racial understanding than the election of Barack Obama.”
Writing in the American Prospect, Parker explained, “Trump’s clear bigotry makes it impossible for whites to deny the existence of racism in America. . . . His success clashes with many white Americans’ vision of the United States as a fair and just place.”
With the rise of the Balck Lives Matter movement at a time when Trump’s political fortunes are collapsing Milbank suggested that a perfect storm in voting patterns is occurring faster than expected.
Has anyone noticed the the issue of racism is being slowly replaced by the call to protect history, even the history of slavery and racism…..
To answer my own question….I say yes it is….and the Old Guard is losing its hold on the party….eventually it will collapse without some major tweaking to keep it relevant in today’s political climate.
The Big Tent mentality has collapsed……it all began with Reagan then fueled by Newt and his soapbox then the Tea Party and finally the presidency of Trump….the party is NO longer the party of Lincoln.
Anyone have a comment or anything to add to this conversation…..please do so….I would like to hear from my readers.
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I have no idea if the Republican Party is collapsing. When I look at a political map of the USA, I see more ‘;Red States’ than Blue ones. But I suspect it is undergoing the same changes affecting most Right-Wing parties around the world in that it is moving in the direction of the Far-Right, thereby polarising opinion more, and creating a bigger division in society.
Best wishes, Pete.
We will see with the next election….many Far Right candidates are running as Repubs. chuq
Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
And this makes me very happy: GOP collapse! Because the supposed values they stand for are totally corrupted: seems since Reagan!! … “To answer my own question … I say yes it is .. .and the Old Guard is losing its hold on the party … eventually it will collapse without some major tweaking to keep it relevant in today’s political climate.”
Thanx for the re-blog….hugz chuq
I think only time will tell. I do know that Republican anti-Trump groups have vowed that they’re widening their scope to also focus on politicians who have repeatedly sided with him, in the hopes of bringing back the Party.
As long as Trump is in the Party they cannot move forward in my opinion. chuq
I think their plan is to take him down and then weed out the others.
True conservs are working hard to get Trump beat in November….chuq