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How Donald Trump reduced the GOP to groveling sycophants
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This is the core of it. Even the ones who dared to criticize Trump after Jan. 6 walked it back once they realized the masses of his fans were still loyal to the orange crown. Trump will own the Republican party until he is dead because his fans won't turn on him under any circumstances.
Since his fans believe what they want to believe he might be alive forever, I mean there were people on a street waiting for J.F. Kennedy to come back because they believe he didn't die or something. I am not sure if they can get Trump out of the GOP ever again.
John Jr, but your point stands.
That's a scary thought, especially with deep fakes getting better all the time.
The emperor has no clothes, but the audience can't be bothered to read a elementary school level book.
They heard there was a book about a naked man in the children’s section and shut down the library.
I wish I were optimistic enough to believe his death will do anything other than further radicalize the party. Even if he choked to death on a Big Mac on live TV, they'd blame the Jews or athiests or antifa or immigrants or whomever the villain du jour is that week.
Well, their implementation of it anyway. Tbf, their implementation of anything does not work:-P.