Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
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The Republicans have an almighty quandary to deal with. Not only did the Orange One expose/fuel the chasms between the hard right, traditionals and more 'reasonables' but he did give them very good numbers for a strong base - how the hell do you hold that base AND deal with such disparity and dysfunctionality within the party? You certainly will not unite a political party using the rhetoric of the divider, whose very MO was was personality based around his own grandiosity!!
The Orange One was a deeply divisive character with serious personality and mental health issues, demonstrated quite spectacularly through a Neanderthal and fundamental attitude of 'winners & losers / "you're either fer me or you're agin me"'. If you're for him, you're fantastic, great, beautiful... and he may even declare love for you. If he thinks you're 'agin' him, you're a fake, fraud or unpatriotic. Addressing this lingering toxic cloud within the Republican Party will be especially difficult for such conservative people, who, by their very nature, fear change.
So if a future Republican leader decides to follow the Orange One's script... may the gods help them! They'll end up in a world of cr@p. The Orange One was authentically himself - as deranged as that was. The newbie actually needs to be the opposite of the Orange One... someone who unites AND holds the base - good luck finding him (won't be a her, that's a leap to far for conservatives).
And no point hoping for Jesus/a Messiah (we at the CFC have learned that!!!!) to reappear, if he did he'd be an independent... and Jesus was something of a radical and definitely not conservative, but that's another topic.