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@ TheHill: McConnell

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:23:18 +0000

@ TheHill: McConnell circulates procedures for second Senate impeachment trial of Trump, 6H AGO

Politico's headline,

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:19:03 +0000

Politico's headline, meanwhile, makes an excellent point: Trump’s existential threat: How to keep GOP in line without Twitter The president has used Twitter to punish perceived disloyalty within his party. Now he's lost his favorite tool at a defining moment.

top of NYTimes home page

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:16:38 +0000

In reply to Republicans Endorse Trump as Party Leader

top of NYTimes home page right now ‘I Want Him Out’: Murkowski Is First G.O.P. Senator to Call for Removal

10 months ago:

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 06:29:27 +0000

In reply to Republicans Endorse Trump as Party Leader

10 months ago:

Always absolutely wild to watch people kick and scream about Twitter being “on the left” when it’s actually owned by a lot of rich right-wingers https://t.co/uCbpMmj8Yy
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 9, 2021

different story

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 04:32:51 +0000

In reply to Republicans Endorse Trump as Party Leader

different story

What is the GOP after Trump? The shell-shocked party is split over the path forward. https://t.co/yubfu2zKVV
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 8, 2021

Not editorial section. By Aaron Zitner, Siobhan Hughes and John McCormick Jan. 8, 2021 6:12 pm ET

Hope you're right!

NCD — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:37:58 +0000

In reply to Another point: If it does

Hope you're right!

Another point: If it does

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:54:06 +0000

In reply to I see nothing here to

Another point: If it does become the Trump Yahoo Party where's it going to get its money? Not from any of these guys. Not from the Koch Brothers. Not from the greatly reduced Bannon connections with wealth. Not from Wall Street friends of Scaramucci....etc.

Friends of Putin? $5 donations from the Qanon club?

I see nothing here to

artappraiser — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:41:28 +0000

In reply to Republicans Endorse Trump as Party Leader

I see nothing here to disprove other stories about how split the party is, on the contrary, there is more explanatory evidence of how Trump populist activists just infiltrated the ranks, lpartly with the help of his minions, while he had the power of the presidency

The loyalty to Mr. Trump results in part from the turnover on the committee during his term. The president’s top political lieutenants intervened to install loyalists in state and local G.O.P. conventions ahead of 2020. The goal was to prevent any party rule changes that could have made it easier to mount a primary challenge against Mr. Trump, but the end result was to leave the committee heavy with Trump devotees.

The changes also accelerated a trend that pre-dated Mr. Trump’s rise: the evolution of the committee from a body filled with canny political professionals and power brokers in their states to one dominated by dogmatic partisans well-marinated in Fox News and Facebook memes.

Perhaps more significant, the president has fostered a new wave of activism on the right — and many longstanding G.O.P. leaders fear alienating these newcomers to party politics.

the question now really is will the establishment fight back to get some control or become Independents and let it fully become the Trump Yahoo Party.

Part of that really does hinge on what happens with the dear leader after office, whether he can maintain "ratings" in some kind of media while fighting all kinds of state court cases (or while overseas?) with the international media titans cracking down on his shenanigans and those like him as we speak After all, there's a pandemic going on, countries have to keep shutting down, this is serious now.