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Topic	Trump can not win the future of democracy depends on this election.
adjl 10/05/23 10:01:29 PM #55:	Far-Queue posted... I honestly don't feel there's much "loyalty" to Trump in the Republican party. It's opportunism. They need his seemingly unflappable voterbase, and no one has yet figured out how to appeal to Trump's followers without alienating them, in no small part due to the fact that anyone who challenges Trump ends up squarely in his crosshairs, and Trump's base loves him most when he's on the attack. If any member of the GOP cracks that nut and can successfully pull Trump's voters, the GOP would turn on Trump in a second Pretty much. It's not a personal affinity for Trump, it's just having no sweet clue how to appeal to voters except to piggyback on him and whatever he's doing (that, and attacking LGBTQ people). On the bright side, that fanbase is alienating more and more moderate voters as it becomes more extreme (dragging the GOP along with it), while the Democrats have generally been pretty unoffensive thanks to Biden being thoroughly unremarkable as a president (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), so that actually bodes pretty well for the Democrats' chances in the next election. It's hardly set in stone, and complacency will be extremely dangerous, but there's at least reason to be optimistic. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:976501696] in Trump can ... [t:80582834]...</cite> <quote>Far-Queue posted... </cite><quote>I honestly don't feel there's much "loyalty" to Trump in the Republican party. It's opportunism. They need his seemingly unflappable voterbase, and no one has yet figured out how to appeal to Trump's followers without alienating them, in no small part due to the fact that anyone who challenges Trump ends up squarely in his crosshairs, and Trump's base loves him most when he's on the attack. If any member of the GOP cracks that nut and can successfully pull Trump's voters, the GOP would turn on Trump in a second</quote>Pretty much. It's not a personal affinity for Trump, it's just having no sweet clue how to appeal to voters except to piggyback on him and whatever he's doing (that, and attacking LGBTQ people).On the bright side, that fanbase is alienating more and more moderate voters as it becomes more extreme (dragging the GOP along with it), while the Democrats have generally been pretty unoffensive thanks to Biden being thoroughly unremarkable as a president (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), so that actually bodes pretty well for the Democrats' chances in the next election. It's hardly set in stone, and complacency will be extremely dangerous, but there's at least reason to be optimistic. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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