Do elected Republicans believe they work for Donald Trump or for the American people?

[kentuck]

It seems they value the happiness and success of Donald Trump more than the American people. They act as if they went to Washington to fight the wishes of the people. They are blessed to work with such a person as Donald Trump.

But, hasn't it always been that way? They badmouth their opponents and lie to their supporters that they are going to Washington to work for them. Unfortunately, these poor souls buy their crap. When they say they are going to cut taxes for the rich and take away the healthcare from the poor and middle-class, their supporters somehow believe it is in their interests.

But, they cannot name one thing that Republicans have done for them or their children. Ever. Republicans have always voted against the majority of their supporters. They collect their Social Security checks, their Medicare, their foodstamps, their Medicaid, and continue to curse themselves.

[Trust Buster]

1. Due to extreme gerrymandering, they work for 35% of the population. You don't count.

[BainsBane]

6. Yep

and it's even less who participate in GOP primaries.

[ginnyinWI]

2. they work for themselves.

For their own political expediency. Case in point one P. Ryan--has wanted to cut Medicare and Social Security since high school. Their own ideology and their own political survival.

[Phoenix61]

12. Yep!!!

Their moral development definitely stalled way before it should have. Erickson has a very interesting theory about how morality develops. Per his theory, looks like Twitler never made it out of the first stage.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html

[Chasstev365]

3. They work for a political power cult known as the GOP which is owned by the Koch Brothers & others

[WinkyDink]

4. Um....None of the Above? Republican pols know FULL WELL whom they work for, and those would be the

1% who DONATE for KICKBACKS.

I give you $100,000 for your campaign; you vote my preference on any tax-reform Bill. Or environmental Bill. Or Charter Schools Bill. Or.....

It is simplicity itself.

[HAB911]

5. GOP Lawmakers Work For the President, Says Congressman

Calfornia Rep. Devin Nunes is in the soup a bit at the moment because he's been conducting the House Intelligence Committee's investigation of the Trump-Russia-wiretapping scandal in such a way that seems designed to serve the interests of the White House rather than, like, the public. (Most prominently, Nunes announced that he'd seen classified information that suggested Trump associates had been treated inappropriately without disclosing that he apparently received that information during a meeting in an office on the White House grounds with Trump administration officials.) Even one Republican congressman (North Carolina's Walter Jones) has criticized Nunes' seeming lack of impartiality and called on him to recuse himself from the ongoing investigation.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/30/rep_ted_yoho_says_devin_nunes_works_for_donald_trump.html

[Alpeduez21]

7. THe RW media has been hammering the racist message to them for decades

You may be poor, at least your not black, brown, Hispanic, etc...

and more recently, at least you're not a liberal. That last message is the Republican agenda. It stands for nothing except being anti-left. If the left likes it, we hate it. If the left hates it, we like it. That's it.

It's why I believe conservatives should not even be listened to. There are enough voters out there to defeat them w/o winning the backwards thinking people over. We don't need them. Of course, this assumes there will be elections.

[ananda]

8. 45 as that means white people

nt

[LonePirate]

9. That is a rhetorical question, isn't it?

[MichMary]

10. Many, many of them

represent districts/states that voted for Trump, some overwhelmingly. If they don't follow the Trump agenda, they are not working for the people they represent.

[atreides1]

11. Neither

They are working for themselves and for who can put the most money in their pockets!!!

I've come to the conclusion that many Republican supporters want to see people suffer, they like the idea of inflicting pain on others, some of them probably get off on it! For others it's usually a one issue concern, gay marriage, abortion, equal rights for all Americans...none of which they believe in!

The majority are white and christian, who have come to believe the myth as to how their skin color makes them superior and their "God" is the only one that is worthy of worship! Those people of color and women who support the Republicans are willing to accept the scraps from the big table...so they can feel like they've been accepted!

I don't feel any sympathy for them, because they allow themselves to be fooled and lied to, intentionally! Even when it's become clear that they will suffer, too!!!

[Hortensis]

14. Well, shouldn't be surprising, even if shocking.

The conservative-dominated Republican Party has always had an authoritarian, top-down power structure. (More analagous to herding livestock than the DemParty's herding cats.)

Shockingly irresponsible and contrary to the Constitution as it may seem for congressional pubs to consider the president their leader, the Constitution was meant to establish a fundamentally liberal republic, while obeying their leaders and acting as a cohesive whole seems more right to most conservatives than considering themselves individually responsible or even primarily responsible to their constituents for their decisions.

[RKP5637]

15. Today's GOP would be pleased if most citizens died off. Today's GOP functions as

a cult. I think the majority of Americans are still having difficulty comprehending what today's GOP has morphed into. The GOP and Trump are one in the same, cut from the same piece of cloth. Trump represents and says what the GOP thinks, wants and many are afraid to say. Trump, is their hero and they worship him.

[MedusaX]

16. KGOP has always worked for a hidden master (1%) and *45 is simply an overt representative of what

previously was completely behind the scenes...

Obviously, plebeians had caught on to the Koch Bros & their kind lurking behind the scenes...
so some marketing guru decided that KGOP needed to change tactics...
So the idea,
I guess,
was to find a con-man
that would serve 1%
while convincing the base he was working
for them against the 1%....

A large shiny orange object to distract
/ divert attention away
from the "work" being done by congress....,

Problem was that con-man was indebted to Vlad and decided to make good on that marker first...

which created unintended consequences for KGOP.....