Why I Think The Repugs Always Rally Around Trump....

[global1]

When Trump won the Repug nomination the Repugs had to deal with Trump and they took him into their confidence and basically let him in on all the voter suppression, cheating and stealing of votes. They told him of their fund raising abilities and how they skirt the laws surrounding campaign contributions.

They thought that they were talking to one of their own and treated him as such.

Then Trump won and Trump became a liability to the Repug Party. But it was too late. Trump knows all their illegal secrets.

I believe that Trump has threatened to tell all of their secrets if they don't remain loyal to him and always protect him and circle the wagons for him.

Now if you don't like my above theory - maybe you might like the alternate theory. It is - even if they didn't take into their confidence and let him in on all their secrets - what do we know about Trump? Well of course - he's a liar. He can't get by a tweet, a speech or a day without telling lies. So even if he's not privy to their secrets - I think he would threaten them with making up crap that could sink the Party.

Either way - the Repugs will never save us from Trump. Our 2020 Dem Campaign needs to be more than just running anti-Trump. We need to mount a full court press on the Repug Party itself and inform the American People how toxic the Repugs are to each and every one of them. We have to run against the Repug Party as they were the catalyst that delivered Trump to us and they are the reason that he gets away with collusion, obstruction, misogyny, racism, emoluments violations and destroying our democracy by dismantling it in full view of all of us on a daily basis.

No - the Repugs won't save us. We the American People need to save us at the voting booth.

[Trenzalore]

1. Trump has a 90% approval rating amongst self identified republicans

If there is a republican in your life there is a 90% chance that they love the guy.

The reason the republicans bow down to him is he can take them out of a primary with a tweet. There are few exceptions. Murkowski is bigger than Trump in Alaska, Romney is bigger than Trump in Utah, and Collins has to walk a tight rope every 6 years of pretending to be a moderate.

Why do 90% love him. They are awful people. Pretty much that simple. It took me a while to accept that but here we are.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, republicans have their own network of outlets because of there's no fairness doctrine

[Buckeyeblue]

3. I agree with you that in general his supporters are awful people

But how do we beat them?

[Trenzalore]

4. There are more of us

I think his margin of victory in PA, WI, and MI has probably died since 2016

[Buckeyeblue]

6. I keep thinking that...a lot of old white people have passed on since 2016

And that will continue for the next year and a half. I don't see new voters splitting for him at quite the same rate.

[UTUSN]

5. J.Edgar playbook