Well?
The big guy see’s that the Grand ole Party leader’s are in the process of going back to their own way…..
The Republicans in the states won’t throw an election for him….
And the poll numbers for him, even among his ‘conquered’ party supporters are dropping….
Hey?
Why not start your own party?
Ah?
I wouldn’t worry to much about this….
Everything the guy touches turns to shit….
(Third parties do NOT work in American national politics)
But maybe the Republicans should?
Cause a Trump party ?
Even as a failure would dig holes in the Grand ole Party….
Maybe the Democrats can help Trump with this?
President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to exert continued influence after he leaves the White House.
Mr. Trump discussed the matter with several aides and other people close to him last week, the people said. The president said he would want to call the new party the “Patriot Party,” the people said.
Mr. Trump has feuded in recent days with several Republican leaders including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who on Tuesday said Mr. Trump deserved blame for provoking the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Polls show Mr. Trump retains strong support among rank-and-file GOP voters.
The White House declined to comment.
It’s unclear how serious Mr. Trump is about starting a new party, which would require a significant investment of time and resources. The president has a large base of supporters, some of whom were not deeply involved in Republican politics prior to Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Third parties have typically failed to draw enough support to play a major role in national elections. Any effort to start a new party would likely face intense opposition from Republican party officials, who would chafe at the thought of Mr. Trump peeling off support from GOP candidates….
image…PBS.Org
Here we go ….
Thanks Scott….
As others are also saying, I add my view that anyone who would remotely consider joining Donald Trump in this new party…
DO IT!
At this point that would make the GOP a distant 3rd party.
While I seriously doubt this will happen for all sorts of reasons, if Trump could pull it off ?
It would have serious ramifications for the Republican Party .
However, those he talks to about it are probably telling him that such a venture has no chance of success.
At least by theoretical analogy, the eclipse and eventual suffocation of Lincoln’s Grand Old Party (est 1854) by a new Trumpist Patriot Party is not outside the realm of plausibility.
Look at Canada, where the historic Progressive Conservative Party (formed in the 1930’s or 1940’s by uniting historic Tories with a conservative insurgent farmers’ movement0) was crushed and eventually forced to merge with the Reform Party of Canada as the Conservative Party of Canada.
The Reform Party was a right-wing evangelically-tinged (pro-life, etc.) Anglophone movement hailing from the provinces west of Ontario. and strongly critical of official bilingualism, multiculturalism and free trade.
[Its first leaders’ origins were in the idiosyncratic right-wing Social Credit Party started in — and at times governing — Alberta and British Columbia, with a visible intolerant French-nationalist finger in Québec.]
First in B.C. and the Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba), the Reform Party outshadowed and overcame the Progressive Conservatives of John Diefenbaker and Joe Clark. However the P.C.’s were still very strong in the Maritime Provinces (N.B., N.S. & P.E.I) and Newfoundland. Ontario was a battleground, but facing both the Liberals and the New Democrats in first-past-the-post constituencies, the Reform Party first started outperforming and marginalizing the Progressive Conservatives in western Ontatio and later in the denser, more urban east.)
By the way, for you nerds out there (who?), that meant that at one point Canada had five non-trivial parties in Parliament: Reform, P.C., Liberal, Bloc Québécois and New Democratic.
With a dynamic but intolerant message of resistance, the Reform Party won over the Tories historic base in the right-wing electorate.
Some opportunistic Conservative politicians merged their parties into unions such as the Canadian Alliance of Conservatives and Reformers, but eventually in 2003 the remaining Tories and the Reformers dissolved themselves into Stephen Harper’s party, the Conservative Party of Canada.
Obviously, despite some close analogies, U.S. political history will be quite different from Canada’s, but the right-wing populism that distinguishes Trump’s movement from traditional Republicanism bears a strong resemblance to that of the Reform Party of Canada.
So to me, it’s at least conceivable that a new Trump Party could eclipse and extinguish the traditional G.O.P., as the Republicans eclipsed the Whigs between 1854 and 1860.
It’s not conceivable to me.
This is all bluster.
The chances that Trump will make an attempt to form a “Patriots Party” is less than 1 in 10 .
I tend to disagree. He will make some sort of show of “leaving” the Republican Party. He will never be able to get over those in the party who are now or will be tossing him aside.
But if he does that before the Senate vote, they just give him a reason to disqualify him from running again.
Trump cannot mange anything….
A whole political party?
Forget it…
He wouldn’t be able to leave the money alone…
And he’d piss them all off if they did one thing he didn’t like…
“He(Trump) will be the strongest voice in the(Republican) Party for years.”
Lindsay Graham
How. He’s not even on Twitter.