The GOP can't leave MAGA — "Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party"

Again for the chuds and shills in the back:

“Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.

And let's be honest, Trump has shown signs of dementia since the beginning of his first term. It was obvious when hearing his communication when he was younger.

What's terrifying about MAGA isn't Trump, it's who comes next.

A second term for Trump will be terrible, but it'll end fairly quickly as I don't think he's going to live another 10 years.

However, if you take a look at the "Next generation" they are all copying trumpism but just making it a bit more crazy. Vivek is the poster child for this behavior. They are finding more and more than just abandoning pretext and saying the quiet part outloud doesn't lose elections.

The only way to stop this is having the GOP lose over and over and over again. After Biden's presidency the GOP cannot see power for at least another decade otherwise it will just snowball into more extreme craziness (it may do that anyways as the insane base will keep moderates out of office).

Republican party doesnt need a mercy kill.

It needs a legitimate, in depth, non-partisian federal criminal investigation and convictions against every one in the party that has betrayed their office and sold America out to foreign powers... Or have fucked kids.

Which, unfortunately for them, seems to be a significant chunk of them.

Start with all the ones that I've been balls deep on Putin.

No.

No mercy.

Make it an example.

Let them be electorally crucified. Make voting GOP as reviled as voting for the KKK.

mercy-kill

I don't see why they deserve any mercy.

Never ceases to amaze me how often I see this canard:

both parties share culpability in creating the opening for MAGA and Trump

So Dems, who are never elected to represent those poor, forgotten souls in the rust belt or former coal mining towns, and therefore are not in a position to actually do anything to help them, are somehow culpable for those folks, what, voting against their interests?

Fuck off with this both sides enlightened centrist bullshit. Folks in Virginia and Alabama voted for right wingers who fucked them over, then those people successfully channeled the resulting anger and resentment at the "establishment".

It's the political consequences of starve the beast politics.

Americans have been electorally mercy killing the GOP for forty years, they invented moving the goalposts in response.

There may still be a less electoral way to mercy kill the GOP.

It is refreshing to see someone who has left MAGA and realises the full potential danger that Trump and the GOP pose.

This is another framing suggesting that the Republican party was a legitimate party until Trump, they have been the party of racists since, at least, Nixon and the implementation of the southern strategy.

Trump isn't the root of the evil of the party, the party has been evil for 60 or so years, trump is the logical conclusion.

Calling it a mercy killing erases all the evil done for so long. The party doesn't need a mercy killing, it needs to be held accountable for the evil it has done for decades.

There is no more Republican party, it is MAGA now. People who don't fall in line behind Trump are retiring and leaving office.

Trumpism is not going to be defeated by voting at this point. Pelosi: "US needs a 'strong' Republican Party." Dems are fine with the good cop, bad cop dynamic.

Sounds like he's well qualified to be the first king of the USA. He's got everything. A ridiculous family tree, he's loony, he's corrupt, he's bankrupt. All hail king Trump the first!

Republicans are at best corporate shit slingers and at worst fascists and pedophiles. Why do they deserve anything resembling mercy?

It will be a “shock and awe” campaign visited upon the American people.

This subject does not seem to be receiving the warranted attention it deserves

Fitting. American democracy began with Mad King George III and will end with Mad King Trump I.

Wait a minute, if we get rid of the Republican Party, wouldn't a two party system become a one party system? So if Trump is elected, end of democracy, if Republican party is destroyed, also end of democracy? Is there no way out? End of democracy either way?

If we seek out ways to 'kill' that 'political party' I urge we give no mercy, no quarter, and we finish the damn job.

If this were a healthy democracy, we would have a press corps that would put a spotlight on what is real and not “both sides” everything while focusing on the horse race instead of the consequences of the election.

Oh, I don't know about that one. The job of the press corp is to report, not to speculate. This is one of the problems we have now, there's far too much opinion and speculation in the "news" media. I have to use quotes for news because what most Americans choose to observe as the news today is a shell of what it once was. The call should be for less speculation and more unbiased reporting and interviews for both sides.
Incidentally, since I was a kid, I've always thought the news and government leaders have failed to educate the people about policy and intents. This seems to be where speculative and opinion based journalism have taken seat.

That the media are focused on Biden‘s age, while ignoring Trump’s infirmities is absolutely maddening.

Agreed. Because (again) "the news" doesn't so much care about their responsibility as the fourth pillar of democracy but about their responsibility to advertisers and share holders. Trump and fear have always been the Big Stories that generate ad revenue.

As James Fallows pointed out, in the New York Times there were headlines on Super Tuesday’s outcomes that Trump romped and Biden has trouble while Biden got a significantly higher percentage of votes than did Trump, which tells us all too much about media bias.

I mean, he is the incumbent president. Does anyone even know who's running against him in a primary? No. because the media isn't reporting that (enough).

I'm honestly a little more distraught about what the press has become than four more years of Trump. It's in large part because of the press and media outlets pretending to be news that we have Trump in the first place.
Although, I do blame The Public's lack of interest and attention more so. People just don't care to watch actual news. They only care about headlines and short video clips and thriving in their echo chambers. So, as much as I'd love more federal funding for non-profit journalism, that's not going to overcome our disinterest in real unbiased reporting and interviewing.

I think the future of this country is very, very dismal. The polarization of politics can only get worse as we hand over all our Power of The People to social media and content makers and (eventually) AI – unless we adopt Ranked Choice Voting. RCV could very well reduce the polarization and extremism on both sides of the aisle while (eventually) cultivating a congress that works together to enact legislation making this country more representative of The People. As would public funding of all elections and regulating the power of special interest groups in DC.

Ms swift just needs to drop the hammer.

I have been saying this for awhile. They need to be forced into a restructure like they did in the past. Remember the whig party? No I don't either but its in the history books as should be the only place for the GOP.

Maybe if people understood electoral design and consensus mechanism we could have something other than the worst possible options in each party. Election mechanisms that promote popularity instead of acceptability is what got us here. The truth is the system doesn't work. When can people just start saying that openly?

Are any motherfuckers protesting in the lobby if the NYTimes LA Times, Chicago Tribune, or anywhere else that has been cushioning and softballing this shithead?

I don't think we get enough credit just how much we've fought back the Republican assholes. Our system gives them a huge edge and we're still winning. It's the equivalent of fighting somone with your hands tied behind your back and still giving them an ass whooping.

Until and unless we have a way to artificially enhance intelligence - or find some other way to push human nature forward - we will likely always be stuck with some significant minority of the deplorables. The trick is to not give them any power or say whatsoever, though.

You will choose between two senile candidates. One a psychopath wannabe dictator, the other one a genocide enabler. I am not jealous.

I like Donald Trump and I'm voting for him in 2024.

Am I allowed to say that here?