Donald J. Trump LOST re-election last November….
He didn’t like it….
He even tried to overturn the results…
He failed….
Other Republicans would not follow his fallacy …
Now?
He is acting like he should STILL be the leader of the party…
There is a skirmish going on in the US Senate for control….
But in the media and across the Republican land of America Trumpist’s ARE following their ‘leader’ in ways that could be described as same the ‘ Johnstown Cult’….The first example being the Capitol protest that turned into a assault against the nation’s Congress and Vice President…
This weekend we have the Conservatives hanging out at their annual event…
The main speaker will be the last one….
Donald Trump….
Make no mistake….
The former President wants to keep his hold on the party faithful….
I believe primarily for his ego and more for the money stream he’s get from it…
Trump is the first Republican nominee in a generation to lose Arizona and Georgia, albeit narrowly. His ouster after one term — he was the first president sent packing after just four years since George H.W. Bush in 1992 — culminated a tumultuous tenure that saw Republicans lose control of the House, the Senate, and the White House. At CPAC, nobody is holding Trump responsible for the Democratic takeover in Washington, D.C.
The culprit is massive voter fraud across several states, a topic receiving the lion’s share of attention from speakers and panel discussions on the main stage here at a Hyatt Regency in Orlando. When Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, a leading Trump ally, raised the issue of his objection to Pennsylvania’s Electoral College votes during the Jan. 6 certification of the election in Congress, he received one of the most sustained standing ovations of the day.
“I just want to say to those people who say to us: ‘Oh, you’re the past; your moment has passed. It’s over, it’s Joe Biden’s America now.’ I just want to say, ‘We’re not the past, we’re the future,’” said Hawley, a populist mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2024 — if Trump does not run.
The support for Trump at CPAC has not abated an inch since he took the Republican Party and the conservative movement by storm nearly six years ago when he initiated his first campaign for president.
Everywhere, conferencegoers were decked out in Trump garb and paraphernalia — some of which sent the distinctive message that they do not believe Biden was elected legitimately. One man wore a baseball cap with the words “Trump won” stitched across the front; another donned a T-shirt that read: “Biden is not president.” Trump garnered 74.2 million votes in November, more than any incumbent president in history, as his supporters never tire of pointing out.
The part they tend to leave out, or simply do not believe, is that Biden won quite a few more votes — 81.3 million, the most ever by a presidential candidate. Trump relinquished power on Jan. 20, leaving the nation’s capital for his new home base in Palm Beach, Florida. But as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a likely 2024 contender, noted in a fiery speech to CPAC Friday morning, the former president “ain’t going anywhere.”…
More @ The Washington Examiner
From my and other’s view this is a bad thing for the Republicans party and Good thing for Democrats…
I’m a Democrat…
But I also do this place and I often look outside the box here….
Trump’s efforts seem to be designed for HIM….
Not the party on the whole….
Even after the GOP lost the House, Senate and White House under his watch — and Trump was impeached twice, most recently for his role in inciting a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — his sharpest critics concede that he remains in control of the party and his allies are ascendant.
“It’s Donald Trump’s party. It’s the party of [Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene,” said Sarah Longwell, a GOP strategist who founded Republican Voters Against Trump. “We are maybe 10 percent. Trump needed to be thoroughly repudiated. Only then could you have a fight for the soul of the Republican Party. That didn’t happen.”
Trump’s new life, as a king in his own domain, in many way resembles the life he led before running for president, full of meetings and phone calls focused on figuring out how to grow his power and prestige. His preferred tables at the Mar-a-Lago Club and his nearby golf course are cordoned off by ropes, and the other diners typically give him a standing ovation when he comes and leaves, according to four people who have been present. He appears generally in better spirits than many remember from the final year in the White House….
More @ Washington Post…
People running on his altered reality WILL have trouble in next years elections…
They will carrying water for a man who was never popular across the main stream of American and will be even less so once a whole batch of legal actions come in against him in the coming months…
The ‘party’ will continue to fracture in the Congress as more and more lawmakers find it important to actually work with President Biden and the Democrats to come out looking good with the general public, including Republicans voters (Biden’s stimulus bill has support among the majority of Republicans)…
As the Republican Party goes forward?
It’s lawmakers ARE going to be torn in different directions…
They ARE going to have to figure out how to dance with a ‘loser’ and keep their jobs…
While Democrats , in power, move ahead dealing with the mess that Donald Trump left behind and some former Republicans peel off…
…the fact that Republicans have openly mused about the need to redraw districts to account for the purpling of the suburbs around Atlanta and Kansas City suggests that they accept that some voters who left their party in droves won’t return.
“The Trump era in the suburbs will not be an anomaly when it’s apparent that Trump continues to cast a large shadow over the party,” said one former Republican member of congress, who represented a suburban district and was granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly….
More @ Politico
The Democrats will giving people a helping hand….
Trump will still looking for more handout’s and accolades ….
image….USA Today
Most Republicans refuse to acknowledge he lost.
So to them your headline is “fake news”.
Even though it is spot on.
As Democrats if we simply bring up that Republicans cannot move forward until they acknowledge not only Trump’s loss but also the loss of the Senate we are told that WE are the ones who are trying to keep Trump in the headlines for our own partisan gain. At least that’s what some anti Trump Republicans who have their heads in the sand think.
Trump remains in the headlines because the overwhelming majority of Republicans regard him as their party leader.
I understand anti Trump Republicans desperately trying to deflect discussion from that simple fact .Acknowledging it serves to illustrate their continuing inability to cleanse their party of Trump.It also serves buttress their increasingly delusional predictions that Trump will ride off into the sunset.
Ultimately though ,and all these fantasies aside?It is up to Republicans themselves to rid their party of Trump and,right now at least, there is Nothing to suggest that is anywhere near occurring.
Quote of the Day
“His presidency was unlike any other, so why would we expect his post-presidency to be like any other?”
— James Carville, quoted by the New York Times, on Donald Trump.
Add to ur comment Jack….
Donald Trump is in the headlines because his bull shit SELLS media hits and THAT keeps media ad dollar coming in and THAT keeps share prices solid….
Let’s NOT fool ourselves on this…
His crazy shit works for the media….
Irrelevant to the discussion one,oh yes, unsurprising.
Why do you continue your repetitive bs over and over?
Donald Trump is the Leader of the Republican Party.For sure what he says and does is legitimate news.
Apparently you think they shouldn’t report it.
Silly.
Former Oklahoma Rep.Mickey Edwards ,a former Chairman of the ACU which originally sponsored CPAC has labelled the Republican Party a cult whose members are living an alternate reality.
He also said that Ronald Reagan would be “too liberal” for today’s Republican Party
“The Republican Party really no longer stands for any kind of principles,conservative or otherwise ,” he said.He further alledged that the Party no longer believes in democracy or free elections.
There ARE those who have not drank the kool-aid
Has there been any word about how many CPAC participants have taken Hydroxychloroquine To ward off Covid?
… heavily drowned in Flavor Aid
Perhaps Hydroxycloroquine is more effective for COVID-19 when used with bleach,