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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Political parties are not static. When Trump falls the Republican brand dies. They will reinvent themselves as a left wing party to regain the power they lost. It won't look anything like it does now by 2030.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll take any odds you're offering.

They've spent the last 40 years veering further and further right, consolidating their base of bigots whilst alienating everyone else.

Even if there was a will to pivot left (which there isn't), an entire party doesn't become everything it hates in 6 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you fellow time traveler!!

Any tips to avoid the temporal jail? Or you just were an early adopter?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Any tips to avoid the temporal jail?

Don't go to Hawking's party. It's a sting operation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a common trend in Political Science, adapt or die.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The party tried to move towards the center after Romney lost in 2012, but instead the alt-right seized control, pushed it even further toward the extreme right, and in the process put Trump in power for four years. The lesson the GOP's current leadership learned from that was to always double down, no matter what.

If Trump loses in 2024, I would put my money on the party falling into the clutches of out-and-proud white supremacists, collapsing from internal conflict between its various factions, or (probably) both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At this point, I think it's more likely that they'll dissolve and be replaced than them actually moving left