I would like to let the Republicans in on a little secret...

[kentuck]

Donald Trump is going to divorce you and start a new Party.

He is going to leave the Republican Party.

Then you can ask yourself, "Was it worth it?"

You sold your souls for nothing.

Fools need not look for sympathy.

[underpants]

1. Pssst

Hey Republicans....check out how everything has ever turned out for everyone ever associated with Trump.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. They placed their bets...

They may be surprised when they cash out.

[Mike 03]

3. What a good point.

The calculus with the Republicans has probably been: Trump pulled in so many people who usually don't vote; we cannot afford to lose them.

But as you point out, he's going to take them away anyway!

[Vivienne235729]

4. I sure hope they have a plan to keep regain their party

If they lose, we ALL can potentially lose. And this is a result that is too terrifying to entertain. We almost lost our democracy once. I don’t want to come this close again.

[lagomorph777]

6. When the GQP splits up, we have two small RWNJ parties and one big Dem party: guess who wins?

America, that's who.

[Vivienne235729]

7. At first, yes. But what if they gain traction? At least under the GQP

There is some mild restraint. I am terrified that the crazies go out on their own and gain traction. They just need to be neutralized now.

[lagomorph777]

8. There is no restraint of any kind under the GQP. They have closely allied with the militias now.

Our only hope is a strong Democratic party to reign in the terrorists.

[Vivienne235729]

10. I want to see the dem party grow either way. But I still

See them as a huge threat to our democracy. And I don’t think we can rest on our laurels bc we have the larger party. I think that the moderate republicans need to flex and take back their party. I don’t see them doing anything. Mitch McConnell needs to get his head out of his ass otherwise he will be the Death of his own party too.

[lagomorph777]

12. There are two kinds of Republics in Congress now. Extremists and retirees.

There will be no moderates to resuscitate the party.

[Vivienne235729]

13. Sadly, I think you're absolutely right about this. The moderates have left in droves.

They have gone independent.l or are retiring. Heck, they helped us with the Biden campaign last year here in AZ. Without them, we wouldn’t have taken it. AZ would not be blue. We will absorb them for awhile. I just hope there is a way to curtail the extremist wing so that they don’t recruit the moderate too.

[NCDem47]

5. Fine by me!

Fracture and split votes thereby allowing the Democrats to stand united and lead.

[Beringia]

9. They may use this tactic, Deny, Deny, Deny, from movie Guide for the Married Man

[Silent3]

11. Trump is definitely toying with the idea, but he might also believe...

...and it could be very rightly so, that Republicans are very afraid of splitting the party into two, neither part of which would have much chance of winning a majority in most elections. You only need to scare them with the idea of a separate Trump Party.

To avoid that fate, Republicans will bend over backwards to keep Trump supporters, no matter how fascist and insane that means they have to be.

[WyattKansas]

14. The more Republican politicians that cling to tRUMP...

The more I am inclined to think that Republican politicians are actually terrified that tRUMP has a list of all their dirty secrets that Republicans never want to see the light of day. So Republicans keep kissing his ring in exchange for him keeping his mouth shut about them... Leningrad Lindsey must have a lot of dirty things in his closet. Those few Republicans that actually do stand up to him either don't have very bad secrets or they have covered their asses well enough that it doesn't matter.