Republicans Vanishing

[Omar]

I was listening to this liberal Democrat guy on the radio earlier, and he made some sort of statement about how they were waiting for the Republicans to go the way of the Whigs. He said that the Republicans were likely to be a big factor in the next three or four election cycles, before "the demographics shake out". I'm assuming by that he is talking about the "browning of America" and older, more conservative Americans dying off. At which point I take it he is expecting the Democrats will be the only party left.

He also said something about how Republicans are currently stuck with Trump (whom he described as a crook), because the cost of ticking him off is bigger than keeping him.

This reminds me of Biden's statement earlier in the year when he said something like "I don't even know if there will be a Republican party in 2024, do you?". So what do you think, are Republicans doomed to irrelevance, no matter what they do? If they are going to stay around, they're going to have to find a way to appeal to younger people more than they are now. Younger people tend toward liberalism by nature, and our current crop is severely indoctrinated. Seems like the best hope for Republicans is some sort of backlash. But the older people are probably the only ones who actually remember the Real America.

[RMNIXON]

I can explain that one easy enough. Decades ago in the Clinton Years I also heard how we are all going to Die Out.............




Little did they know how many Working (and Tax Paying) Americans would join the Conservative cause while lefties became the Party of the Super Rich Elite and the handout crowd!









Don't misunderstand of course as these fools can still Win, but the prize will be decades of shared misery to be sure.

[Omar]

I can explain that one easy enough. Decades ago in the Clinton Years I also heard how we are all going to Die Out...

I remember that as well. I even remember people saying the Democratic party wasn't going to be around much longer either, I think that was during the Reagan years. It's a lot like every time someone wins a sports championship, they expect that same team is going to be winning for years, or they call the latest athlete the GOAT. It's flavor of the day to some extent. There's little question that the country has been drifting further to the left though. If the right is complacent, they will be wiped out. It just amazes me how confident some of these lefties are that their own point of view is the only legitimate one, and that any opposition is simply going to vanish as everybody realizes it.

As for Trump being a crook, what has he been convicted of? I don't see how he is any more corrupt than any other number of people we've had in the White House the last several decades. Look at Hunter Biden and his paintings. Tell me that doesn't smell.

[donttread]

I was listening to this liberal Democrat guy on the radio earlier, and he made some sort of statement about how they were waiting for the Republicans to go the way of the Whigs. He said that the Republicans were likely to be a big factor in the next three or four election cycles, before "the demographics shake out". I'm assuming by that he is talking about the "browning of America" and older, more conservative Americans dying off. At which point I take it he is expecting the Democrats will be the only party left.

He also said something about how Republicans are currently stuck with Trump (whom he described as a crook), because the cost of ticking him off is bigger than keeping him.

This reminds me of Biden's statement earlier in the year when he said something like "I don't even know if there will be a Republican party in 2024, do you?". So what do you think, are Republicans doomed to irrelevance, no matter what they do? If they are going to stay around, they're going to have to find a way to appeal to younger people more than they are now. Younger people tend toward liberalism by nature, and our current crop is severely indoctrinated. Seems like the best hope for Republicans is some sort of backlash. But the older people are probably the only ones who actually remember the Real America.

I have no issue with MS repubs going away they are part of the problem. But we are conditioned to a tribal my guy vs your gal mentality. Plus where would either major party be without an opposite to blame everything on. ?Notice dems currently in control of the whole shebang and STILL blaming the repubs? Hell Trump has been out of office for 6 months and they still talk more about his "failures" than Biden's "successes". to be fair when repubs are fully in charge they act very similarly.
So what will rise up to play the devil to the dems Godlyness? Whatever we call it hopefully it represents the middle class for a change at least.

[Jeb!]

People have actually said this for 100 years. Then a demographic group stops becoming part of the Democrats' spoils system and leaves.

[Tahuyaman]

I have no issue with “Republicans” going away. After all I’m a conservative.

[Common Sense]

I was listening to this liberal Democrat guy on the radio earlier, and he made some sort of statement about how they were waiting for the Republicans to go the way of the Whigs. He said that the Republicans were likely to be a big factor in the next three or four election cycles, before "the demographics shake out". I'm assuming by that he is talking about the "browning of America" and older, more conservative Americans dying off. At which point I take it he is expecting the Democrats will be the only party left.

He also said something about how Republicans are currently stuck with Trump (whom he described as a crook), because the cost of ticking him off is bigger than keeping him.

This reminds me of Biden's statement earlier in the year when he said something like "I don't even know if there will be a Republican party in 2024, do you?". So what do you think, are Republicans doomed to irrelevance, no matter what they do? If they are going to stay around, they're going to have to find a way to appeal to younger people more than they are now. Younger people tend toward liberalism by nature, and our current crop is severely indoctrinated. Seems like the best hope for Republicans is some sort of backlash. But the older people are probably the only ones who actually remember the Real America.

Hopefully the Republican Party can be saved by rational conservatives. If they hitch their wagon to Trumpism, the party has a dismal future.

[pjohns]

Hopefully the Republican Party can be saved by rational conservatives. If they hitch their wagon to Trumpism, the party has a dismal future.

I am a bit conflicted here.

In some ways, Trump is a genuine conservative: His SCOTUS picks; his building of the wall along our southern border; his demand for out NATO allies to pay more; his pulling out of the JCPOA (also known as "the Iran Nuclear Deal); etc.

But he was really not a conservative in the same sense that the writers at National Review are conservatives. Or even in the sense that the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institute, or other conservative think tanks fit that definition.

Basically, he is a populist--with some conservative undertones (or perhaps even overtones).

[RMNIXON]

I should also share that not long after Obama won in 2008 I was told by a Moonbat in another Forum that Democrats would enjoy 35 years of Party Rule.............


So there you have it!

[jet57]

I was listening to this liberal Democrat guy on the radio earlier, and he made some sort of statement about how they were waiting for the Republicans to go the way of the Whigs. He said that the Republicans were likely to be a big factor in the next three or four election cycles, before "the demographics shake out". I'm assuming by that he is talking about the "browning of America" and older, more conservative Americans dying off. At which point I take it he is expecting the Democrats will be the only party left.

He also said something about how Republicans are currently stuck with Trump (whom he described as a crook), because the cost of ticking him off is bigger than keeping him.

This reminds me of Biden's statement earlier in the year when he said something like "I don't even know if there will be a Republican party in 2024, do you?". So what do you think, are Republicans doomed to irrelevance, no matter what they do? If they are going to stay around, they're going to have to find a way to appeal to younger people more than they are now. Younger people tend toward liberalism by nature, and our current crop is severely indoctrinated. Seems like the best hope for Republicans is some sort of backlash. But the older people are probably the only ones who actually remember the Real America.

You're looking at this through a microscope. If you'll take wider view I think you'll find that Republicans are suffering a great deal because OF Trump and the radical right slipped into government in January of 1981. The cranks and the radicals have slowly been getting louder and louder and through their talk radio political assistance they have blasted a cacophony of mistrust for our country, our government, our free press, our national medical information program and the far right have done nothing BUT support every conspiracy theory there is concerning the governance of our society. So yes, good Republicans are leaving the party, the focus and leadership of the party is getting smaller and smaller and that's what Biden was referring to with respect to 2024... The whole world is watching this and the Republicans just looking worse and worse as it goes on.