No, the GOP won't abandon Trump no matter what for one reason: he's the last.

[Zorro]

Long before Trump, today’s GOP lost any ability to be constructive on just about anything. If something is good, they reflexively oppose it. People having healthcare? Oppose. People going to college? Oppose. Stopping gun massacres? Oppose. Renewable energy? Oppose.

Their entire policy on immigration is bigotry and hate. Their policy on the budget is to cut taxes for the wealthy. Their policy on elections is to have as few people as possible voting. Also, I’m not quite sure how a political party would be opposed to saving our environment, but here we are.

Then 2016 happened. Republicans have surrendered everything--their duty, their patriotism, and their principles—in order to pledge fealty to a man too stupid to be trusted to manage his own social media account. He remade the party in his ugly image, so now those who haven't left can largely be divided into just three groups: the rich, the racists, and the rubes. This is who they have to work with now.

Every demographic the GOP had been working on gaining has been forever lost. When the Democratic Party became the party of civil rights in the 1960s, the southern conservatives switched allegiance to the GOP, and haven’t looked back. As recently as 2012, the GOP was determined not to lose the fast growing Latinx community in the same way they lost the African-Americans, so they pandered. Even Sean Hannity argued that the GOP should go for amnesty. All of that outreach ended under Trump, who has smeared and insulted them continuously since day one.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/28/1886880/-No-the-GOP-won-t-abandon-Trump-no-matter-what-for-one-reason-he-s-the-last

[hlthe2b]

1. Meah. Republicans "would never turn on Nixon" either. Tired of these pre-ordained conclusions..

What is the point if not to demotivate?

[comradebillyboy]

2. And Nixon was way more popular and vastly more accomplished

than Trump.

[dixiechiken1]

3. Agree 100%

Republicans know the demographics are rapidly changing. Their traditional base (old white guys) are dying off & there aren't enough racists and rubes to make up for the loss.

Younger generations are more diverse and - not only are they more tolerant - they are more accepting. The big scares that have worked so well in the past, (i.e., socialism, immigrants, LGBTQ, etc.), simply aren't the bogeymen they used to be. And yet, they are making no effort to appeal to these younger voters.

Instead, 100% of their efforts are going into cheating, gerrymandering, packing the courts and voter suppression to hold onto power. First rule of survival is, adapt or die. They are dying, literally.

Good eff'ing riddance.

[Zorro]

5. Republicans are going extinct in California

[Aristus]

6. Well said.

Welcome to DU.

[Skittles]

7. excellent analysis, dixiechiken1

welcome to DU

[Captain Zero]

4. D Trump and MAGA

will become the new 'Lost Cause' for them but should only last 20 years or so, instead of 160.