Republican officials are rendering an unequivocal verdict: They want to cement former President Trump’s politics and policies into the foundation of the GOP for many years to come.
Why it matters: The debate over Trump’s post-election hold on the GOP is over — it has gotten stronger since the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.
The evidence is overwhelming:
– House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, a Trump critic, is expected to get booted from leadership next week for saying Trump’s claims of an illegitimate Biden victory are lies and destructive.
– Trumpian voting restrictions like Georgia’s are now being debated in Texas, Florida, Arizona, Iowa and other states.
– The Trump positions on trade and immigration — both of which broke with Bush-era orthodoxy — are now the Republican positions.
– The 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 violence have gone mostly silent, and in at least one case turned on Cheney.
– The entire House GOP leadership will soon be full-throated Trumpers.
– House Rs expect Trump-backed candidates to crush his critics in contested primaries.
– State-level Republican leaders are often as — or more — Trumpian than national leaders, and in many cases will control redistricting.
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Republican officials are rendering an unequivocal verdict: They want to cement former President Trump's politics and policies into the foundation of the GOP for many years to come.https://t.co/3vp2Ldvmwx
— Axios (@axios) May 7, 2021
1/ Those of you thinking Trump will go away if you call him “the former guy” miss the point; you cannot wish him away. It’s politically naïve and borders on juvenile.
The evidence is piling up: Trump’s iron grip over the GOP has been institutionalized https://t.co/SdCBnk8DhG
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 7, 2021
3/ Trump’s minions — both in Mar a Lago and beyond — now entirely control the political and fundraising apparatus of the Republican Party.
His word is law. No one is coming to save the GOP from him; they’re accomplices, not hostages.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 7, 2021
5/ Refusal to focus on the pendant reality of his next run and his defining role in our politics is going to make 2022 and 2024 that much harder…and while the internal splits in the Democratic party are expected, the GOP is planning, working, grinding.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 7, 2021
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