Do you think the Republican party will break off into two new parties?

Fine with me if they do. A split Republican party is good for the democrats and good for America.

Thanks to the broken republicans, we have two democratic senators in Georgia.

I think it’s great, it will split the conservative vote and it will be a cake walk for Democrats after that.

No. The two corporate parties are not very different when it comes to policy, economics, and influence. The Republicans depend on the QAnon conspiracy voters as much as Democrats depend on them. Republicans need the votes of these people, and their propaganda networks create them. And the Democrats need Republican voters and politicians to be publicly vile in order to run as a supposed opposition. The Republican party couldn’t exist without a compliant Democratic party and vice versa.

Note: There are no “fairly reasonable” Republicans. If they were, they would be called “Democrats”.

@hello321 So by your logic Moscow Mitch is a “closet Democrat” ??

It looked like the Republican party would split when the Tea Party raised it’s head.

I don’t think it will happen. I think there will be the typical annoying Republican party and the extreme lunatics will continue to vote Republican because what choice do they have? We have to hope the leadership stops catering to the more extreme in the party, but so far most of them continue to let the extremes have a lot of control.

I keep wondering what most Republicans are thinking while Democrats go on and on about the Republican party fracturing. My Republican facebook friends are less and less on facebook, and when they are there, they are talking about politics less, so I have no idea what they are thinking like I did before. I assume a lot of them are thinking they are offended, they are not crazy, they are not brainwashed, they are not QAnon, and they do not support the attack on the Capitol. My opinion is many of them are influenced by QAnon and they don’t realize it, most of them are in an echo chamber talking only among themselves.

There are Republicans peeling away from the party, but they still worry about the Democrats being too liberal for their taste. They probably feel more like Independents than anything else. I think it is hard for them to vote for Democrats and many will probably continue voting for Republicans.

I think the Democrats have an uphill battle, because even if Republicans are happy with Biden, the scene is already set to make Harris into the enemy of America if she is the nominee in 2024. Many Republicans believe she is the most liberal senator in recent years.

Honestly I feel like it could break into three.

- Establishment Republicans who hate Trump but still agree with his right wing policies

- Far right Q’Anon kool aid drinkers that are also a part of the Tea Party. I think it’ll become sort of “Patriot Party”.

- Republicans that support libertarianism

@rockfan I think those three make sense, but would they actually not support or vote for the Republican candidate? I think those are basically the same three groups that have been voting for the Republicans. Before it was the religious right, the money hungry corporate, and the libertarians.

I don’t think that it matters. The Republican Party is doomed.

Why do you say that @gondwanalon ?

No idea if it will break off. I do hope so. Decent and rational Republicans breaking off with the crazies will make America great again.

Ah but @mazingerz88 It won’t win them elections and that is all that really matters.
The Rep/cons have sold their souls to the radical right and they embrace them for their vote,truth and decency is a thing of the past for most Rep/cons these days.
Like this Green broad spouting things like school shootings are staged, the California wild fires were started by Jewish laser beams from outer space,and Democrat leaders drink babies blood.
If that ain’t BAT SHIT CRAZY ,I don’t know what is.

@SQUEEKY2 Liberals control the schools, mainstream “news” media and now Congress and the White House. Social media also now sensors and restricts conservative speech.

@gondwanalon social media restricts speech only if you equate conservative speech to lies and damn lies !

That is what it has come down to isn’t it?
Well your guy lies to type thing.
Everything is always the other sides fault, always.
Well what you said my guy lied about was taken out of context so it wasn’ t a complete lie.
Anybody else tired of this bull shit?

Just went for a walk today at Capitol Hill. So surreal looking through that fencing and seeing armed guards behind it. The Republican Party needs a lot of soul searching to do. Split if they must to know who is who. Deranged or sane.