Am I wrong that this refuting of MAGA and the GOP will make GOP

[applegrove]

house members more to the center in their voting? I mean many races are very close. Will that temper the crazy right wing voting in the House? It is like the fever broke a bit.

[calguy]

1. We can only hope.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. I don't know.

One would hope so but at this point the crazy has a life of its own and may not easily be bottled back up.

[PortTack]

3. Maybe some..certainly not the craziest of them..JMHO

[Sky Jewels]

4. If they were a rational party, one would think so.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if they just doubled down and amped up the crazy. They don't have much else--certainly not any popular policies to push.

[spooky3]

9. +1

[kwolf68]

5. NO

Picking up a single Dem seat will see to it they "have a mandate". Mind you when Dems win elections, even big numbers, the talking point is always "this is no mandate". To the Repukes they WILL have a mandate to go as totally batshit crazy as they want.

ZERO chance that party moves toward the center. ZERO chance.

[Cosmocat]

14. When in doubt, they double down

nm

[Wingus Dingus]

6. They're not refuting MAGA, they just perhaps want someone else to embody it, IMO.

They can get all the same nasty ugly authoritarian christofascist bullshit in a younger/less embarrassing package, they think.

[Claustrum]

7. I think it depends.

The crazy MAGA ones will still be crazy. The "I need their votes" so I say what they want kind of republicans (or so called moderate republicans) might soften their stance and could possibly work with us.

[chriscan64]

8. Perhaps in the long run.

Too many will think that they didn't crank up the crazy enough.

[GreenWave]

10. They will never do this.

Make them cross the aisle first. They are way past due for anything big in that regard.

[al_liberal]

11. They have never moderated.

They have only doubled down on their strategy of fear and hate at every juncture. They will not now moderate either.

[Cosmocat]

15. Just posted exactly the same thing

When in doubt, they double down.

[zonemaster]

12. Not going to happen

That requires critical self-evaluation and a reading of the room, which isn't the 'echo chamber'. They are in cult-mode, and waking up and deciding to leave the cult is pretty tough to do, even for people that aren't being propagandized multiple hours a day from 10 different directions.

Assume with 95% certainty that they'll never leave the cult and resort to rational thought and dialog. Make plans based on that high-likelihood.

[Caliman73]

13. Likely not.

It will take more than a couple of electoral losses for things to change.

This is a Conservative problem. When Conservatives lose, they will often blame the candidate and not the ideology. They love the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. It wasn't that Conservative ideas are not in line with what most people want, it is that the candidate wasn't conservative enough.

I personally don't think that the Republican party, so long as it adheres to a Conservative ideology, will be able to pull itself out from the extremism that has ended up with.

[griffi94]

16. Probly depends on the makeup of the electorate

The electorate in their districts.
The ones from swing districts will need to be
more moderate. The ones like MTG that are from
solid, safe, red districts will continue with the crazy.

[applegrove]

18. That makes sense.

[tinrobot]

17. That depends on the district

The solid red ones will continue as normal. Those in close races have to walk a tightrope where they don't upset their most conservative voters while simultaneously appealing to the middle.

[CentralMass]

19. I doubt it.

[Johnny2X2X]

20. TBD

Depends on how they deal with their Trump problem from here on out.