Trumpanzee Losers News - The Repugnican Party is Falling Apart.

Trump addresses a rally in Georgia ahead of the run-off election to decide both of Georgia's Senate seats, Jan 4th, 2021. Trump's Republicans lost both, conceding control of the Senate to the Democrats.

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Exclusive: Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it 'Trump cult' | Reuters

It's a well-known phenomenon, especially in political circles, that losing parties tend to turn inward and break up. This is especially true when the defeat is heavy. We saw it in the UK when the Tories fell apart after their catastrophic defeat in 1997 by Tony Blair's Labour; we saw it again when Labour fell apart after Gordon Brown's defeat by Cameron's resergent Tories in 2010; in 2017 when the Tories again degenerated into waring factions when Theresa May lost her majority in the House, and in Labour again in 2019 when Corbyn was beaten badly by Johnson.

And now, the American Republican Party is falling apart following Trump's defeat by Biden in 2020 and the loss of the two Georgia Senate seats and with them, control of the Senate, in 2021.

But perhaps the biggest cause of this mass desertion of the Republicans by former loyalist is not so much the scale of Trump's defeat but by his bizarre behaviour, supported by many senior Republicans, and the immense damage he did to the dignity of the office, afterwards. According to Reuters:

Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush’s administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims of election fraud sparked a deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol last month.

These officials, some who served in the highest echelons of the Bush administration, said they had hoped that a Trump defeat would lead party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the November presidential election was stolen.

But with most Republican lawmakers sticking to Trump, these officials say they no longer recognize the party they served. Some have ended their membership, others are letting it lapse while a few are newly registered as independents, according to a dozen former Bush officials who spoke with Reuters.

Amongst those cited by Reuters, are:

• Jimmy Gurulé, former Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration. He was quoted as saying:

  The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump.

• Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the Bush White House’s communications office for six years. He said roughly 60 to 70 former Bush officials have decided to leave the party or are cutting ties with it:

  The number is growing every day... We have QAnon members of Congress. It’s appalling!

  Purcell pointed out that many felt they have no choice [but to leave the Republican Party]. He referred to Marjorie Taylor Greene, a freshman Republican congresswoman from Georgia who promotes the QAnon conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that top Democrats belong to a secret governing cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Another newly-elected Representative, Lauren Boebert from Colorado, has also made supportive statements about QAnon.
• Ronna McDaniel, Chair of the Republican National Committee:

  We’re having a little bit of a spat right now. But we are going to come together. We have to.

• Rosario Marin, a former Treasurer of the U.S. under Bush, who told Reuters:

  If it continues to be the party of Trump, many of us are not going back. Unless the Senate convicts him, and rids themselves of the Trump cancer, many of us will not be going back to vote for Republican leaders.

• Suzy DeFrancis, a veteran of the Republican Party who served in administrations including those of former presidents Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, who voted for Biden in November:

  I totally understand why people are frustrated and want to leave the party. I’ve had that feeling for 4 years.

Reuters points out that:

More than half of the Republicans in Congress - eight senators and 139 House representatives - voted to block certification of the election just hours after the Capitol siege. Most Republican Senators have also indicated they would not support the impeachment of Trump, making it almost certain that the former president won’t be convicted in his Senate trial. Trump was impeached on Jan. 13 by the Democratic-led House of Representatives on charges of “incitement of insurrection,” the only president to be impeached twice. [And the first to face impeachment abfter leaving office.]

Over half the elected Republican member of Congress, from the Party of Abraham Lincoln, actively support a former president who incited an attempted coup d'etat by a mob of white supremacist fundamentalists with the expressed intention of assassinating leading elected representatives in order to overturn a democratic election that he lost; a man with, a deranged paranoid psychosis and a narcissistic personality disorder, who used the office of POTUS as a means of aggrandizement for himself, his relatives and his cronies. A corrupt little man who surrounded himself with so many crooks and cheats that he had to grant pardons to over 70 of them to protect them from criminal prosecution for the crimes they committed under his nose, often at his behest and on his behalf. A man who called neo-fascist white supremacists, 'very fine people' and labelled anti-fascist groups as 'domestic terrorists'.

Until the Repugnicans join with the Democrats in excising the Trump cult cancer from American politics, he and his cult will remain a malignant, brooding, embittered influence, angered at their lost, self-abrogated entitlements, possibly for another 20 years. So long as a significant proportion of Republicans remain in the Trump cult and see Trump as a fit and proper person to lead them and the country, the Party has forfeited any claim to be trusted with political power.

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