Dear President Biden: Here is your answer. PLEASE proceed accordingly!

[Montauk6]

Two roads diverged in American politics, and the Republican Party chose the one traveled by disgraced ex-President Donald Trump and QAnon conspiracy theorists.

While pundits ponder the GOP's future -- and traditionalists hope to change course out of the wreckage left by Trump's insurrection -- Washington's power players and state activists have already made their choice.

Highlighting the former President's lightning fast rehabilitation, the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will visit Trump in Florida on Thursday after repudiating his own criticism of the incitement of the US Capitol riot.

Only a week after Trump left the White House, it's clear that his party is not ready to let him go. Extremists and Trumpists are on the rise, while lawmakers who condemned his aberrant conduct fight for their political careers. The anti-Trump wing -- represented by members of Congress such as Sens. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Mitt Romney of Utah and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger -- look like a small and outmaneuvered force.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/politics/donald-trump-republican-party/index.html

[GeorgeGist]

1. The MOB has rules.

[lagomorph777]

11. But the GOP does not. It's every kook for him or herself.

We need to round up as many of the co-conspirators as possible and ship them to Gitmo.

[The Wizard]

2. Will traditional Republicans

join humanity or go down with the ship?

[ananda]

4. I expect some of them will leave the party.

The diehards will stay.

[lastlib]

3. Often when I think about tRump and his place in American politics.....

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I think about Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, with emphasis on the second one, Foundation And Empire, wherein a mutant called The Mule emerged and wrecks the entire galactic political edifice. It's now seeming like an almost perfect parallel to what we have seen with tRump. I may have to re-read it.

[Mossfern]

6. I read that a million years ago.

Time to revisit it. I do recall that people smoked cigarettes on spacecraft in his futuristic novels.
I guess he got that one wrong.

[lagomorph777]

12. The Ass has emerged to wreck the entire American political edifice.

I read that trilogy about 45 years ago - remember the fondness for it, but not much of the story.

[karin_sj]

5. Wow, that was a depressing article

I’ll sum them it up for anyone who doesn’t have the time to read the entire article:

No matter what Trump has done (or does in the future), the GOP will stick with him because the they will always choose power over country.

[gab13by13]

7. I also believe that many Republicans

believe the shit. There are more nut job Republicans in Congress than we realize. This Tommy Tuberville puts Steve King to shame.

[Denvermosaic]

8. Three decades ago one used to see the words 'moderate' and 'Republicans' in the same sentence

Today, these words are mutually exclusive.

[Roc2020]

9. Trump exposed the GOP dirty

drawers for all to see. Only question is who can live with the stink or leave. No middle. Middle = Independent.

[Montauk6]

10. The ONE thing Trump did that was socially redeemable!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Democracy is an obstacle to the Radical Republican Reich. They're working to get rid of it.