https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/nyregion/new-york-republican-party-election.html
ALBANY — It is the party of Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson A. Rockefeller and, yes, President Trump. It led the New York State Senate for almost all of the last 75 years. And its backers
include such deep-pocketed, well-connected interests as charter schools and New York City real estate moguls. But after an Election Day shellacking, the New York Republican Party
has hit bottom.
The party lost a whopping eight seats in the State Senate, evaporating its razor-thin majority, and got pounded by Democrats in every statewide race, extending a losing streak that
dates to 2002. The best that might be said for the Republicans was that they did not lose any ground in the State Assembly, where they are outnumbered by 64 seats. So come January,
when the new Legislature is sworn in, not a single Republican in Albany will have so much as a committee chairmanship.
All of which makes any Pollyannaish take rather difficult. “Someday the Republican Party might come back,” said Gerry O’Brien, a longtime Republican consultant from Brooklyn who
recently changed his party registration to become an independent. “But, of course, someday we’ll also have flying cars and personal jet packs.”
The news on a federal level was no better. Democrats claimed victory over three Republican House incumbents, including Representative Dan Donovan of Staten Island, leaving New
York City without a single Republican representative. All told, 21 of the state’s 27 House members will be Democrats, as are both of its senators. (Senator Kirsten Gillibrand easily won
her second full term on Election Day.) And one of the six Republican House members — Chris Collins of the Buffalo area — is under federal indictment.
Indeed, the state’s electoral schism looks much like that of the nation as a whole, with every urban and many suburban areas solidly blue, and rural districts a deep red. But the math of
that divide is bad for the Republicans: Residents of New York City, for example, which is overwhelmingly Democratic, make up about 40 percent of the state’s voters, spelling almost
certain doom for Republicans running statewide in any year in which Democrats turn out.
Consultants in both parties agree that the state’s most famous Republican, Mr. Trump, is making life difficult for that party’s candidates in state and local races by turning off
independent voters. “His brand of sleaze has totally turned off anybody who ever might even consider voting for a Republican,” Mr. O’Brien said.
Mr. Cox also hoped that the Democrats — whose last stint as a majority party in the Senate dissolved into chaos — would prove to be their own worst enemies. “There’s a sense now
that they have complete power in Albany,” he said. “They blew it once; they’ll blow it again. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
Stay down there please
watch, an even more toxic and insane party is going to take its place.
So then...
The Republican Party?
Bravo, he did something right for once. Now take it out back behind the shed, Ol' Yeller style.
That's what scares me about the path of the republican party. After Trump, are they going to wise up and start appealling to the common people again or are they going to double down on racism, sexism, corruption, and retardation.
The latter. The appeal of the GOP to its base is the latter, not the former. If the GOP wisens up, they'll pretty much just be Diet Democrats and that's not a good look.
Depends how things turn out over the next couple years. I predict that they'll essentially become the libertarian party and start evolving from there.
Republicans are going to have to distance themselves with a new party in many places i think.
Trump has in general completely fucked up the republican party 77% of GOP voters trust Trump more than they do the GOP itself. Even if Trump is elected another term, after that term is up the GOP is fucked. Even Trump supporters understand how corrupt the party is, the only reason they still support it is because of Trump and "owning the libs"....
The GOP will continue to do exactly what it's done since Reagan's campaign paid off: spread increasingly radical propaganda through party-controlled media sources to maintain an anti-informed and perpetually enraged voter base to secure offices that allow them to eliminate democratic institutions that restrict their ability to cheat elections, all so that they can loot and pillage their own voter base for tax dollars that they can then use to isolate themselves from the disgusting underclass of their own creation.
Bush scammed an election in Florida and then used billions of dollars of our money to funnel funds to military contractors who charge exorbitant prices - at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthy so that proportionally more of that military slush-fund would come from the same Americans who got shuttled halfway across the globe to either die or be traumatized. Those people then return home to "benefits" entirely gutted for spare change by the same people that picked their pockets through tax cuts, pushed them into enlisting through manufactured financial instability, and used a portion of their salary to pay for the next kid's gun. Hell, even when 9/11 shocked our country, Bush didn't dare go after the people buying missiles from us to bomb children's hospitals. Nah, let's go to a weak unstable country with large oil reserves instead so the Saudis can keep funneling us cash.
Trump is doing the exact same thing to raucous applause from the people he's literally fucking in the ass on live television while bragging about it. He's the same fucking thing, he's just louder and less competent. Cut taxes (the most for the wealthiest, obviously), cut as many social programs as you can get your hands on, throw the military around to invent a reason to pump more money into the military-industrial complex, invent outside threats to scare people towards radical views, all the same tactics.
Once Trump is gone, the GOP won't do any soul-searching. They tried to make their pump-and-dump scheme more palatable with Romney, and they failed - so why not double down and go full payday loan shark on the US? Keep robbing everyone, keep using identity politics and racism and wedge issues like abortion and gun control to divide people, and keep robbing as much as possible. Gotta get that lifetime high score.
Oh well, at least he only crippled them. They're still doing the autopsy on the California Republican Party.
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