As a cohort of House Republicans angle to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as conference chair, the names reportedly floated to replace the House GOP leadership’s most ardent critic of former President Donald Trump appear to primarily be women who have defended him.
I think Marjorie Taylor Greene would best represent what I think of today’s Republican Leadership.
Well I guess they have reached equality.
I don’t know but I do know it will be somebody worse.
It’s somewhat amazing that the Republicans could take a turn for the worse after Trump was out of office.
But they did it. A right turn for the worse and they’re just speeding down Crazy Street now with the destruction of democracy looming in the windshield.
And they’re a reckless and grave danger to everyone and everything.
They’ll crash soon enough and the wreck will be spectacular.
She won 145 to 61 in the last caucus vote to push her out of leadership. Who thinks over 40 Republican House members will flip? I don’t.
If 2022 swings GOP way (House/Senate) we’re screwed, the crazies will just get crazier. However, if 2022 goes to the Dems (House/Senate) I really don’t know what the GOP will do. Logically the “moderate” wing should feel empowered and rest control from the crazies. However, I think they’ll end up doubling and down on the crazy pants wing.
If I get my way/with, the GOP will continue to get crazier and more extreme Trump As Licking candidates and lose more and more ground as Dems, Moderate GOP and Indies run for the hills.
after they teach Liz Cheney a lesson will they turn their attention to Cindy McCain next? 
Of those 145 there are maybe 130 that would flip if goaded by Trump.
The Republicans had considerable power the last four years and did exactly nothing for the people. The independent voters like what President Biden has done so far, and have the power to swing a close election. I expect much more lying and false charges and voter suppression from the GOPsters. That’s all they have.
Josef Mengele?
The dynamic driving all of this for GOP politicians currently in office, is fear of being primaried from the Right (i.e. by a more rabid Trump supporter) in their next reelection bid. That costs money and can hurt them in the general election. They’re still afraid of the MAGA base even though it’s becoming the rump of the party. They still need those votes. So yeah, I don’t see a swing to a more moderate GOP if they lose Congress in 2022.
I used to think we needed at least a reasonable GOP as part of a healthy two-party system. I’m over that, but I still think it’s bad news if they go completely down the Trumpist rabbit hole. Dems might control national politics, which would be great, but rabid rightwing nut jobs at the state and local level can still do a lot of damage. Just look at what happened with the response to the pandemic in Red states.
I don’t know if we’ll ever see a more moderate GOP at the national level since “all politics is local,” as they say, but if it ever happened it might help tamp down the crazy at the local level.
Probably, but as usual with Trump, the question is “what’s in it for him?” What does he get to make it worth the effort? If he’s not running in 2024 (he isn’t), then he doesn’t need their political support, so it just comes down to polishing his legacy, continuing the Big Lie that the election was stolen.
Aside from a few outbursts here and there, he doesn’t seem all that interested lately. Low energy, as this Politico article is calling it. No announcement of a 2024 campaign, no new social media platform or third party, just a lot of golf and cruising the buffet table.
they achieved minority status some time ago…which is why they are doing all of this shit.
C’mon…do it…put ANOTHER craven, grasping, Trump-sucking Republican in leadership and watch your party spiral into oblivion even faster.
From booting Liz Cheney? If anything else the sheer satisfaction of revenge.
I admire your optimism but…see Beer Hall Putsch
OT-if you feel like time traveling back to 2016 and trump’s campaign, Jason Leopold and Marcy Wheeler are posting and reviewing docs that were released yesterday from mueller’s investigation (thanks to Jason Leopold).
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