And your ongoing support of Donald Trump may have guaranteed that result already.
There were plenty of signs that the Germans were going to lose World War Two well before Hitler put a PPK to his head and blew his diseased brains out. Conservative Germans knew that. Some tried to act, with the last major act being the July 20, 1944 plot which nearly ended the Nazi regime.
And no, we aren't advocating that in this thread. We're advocating the use of the 25th Amendment.
The fact of the matter is that by July 20, 1944, it was too late to save Germany form complete defeat. It wasn't too late, however, to rescue German conservatism. Even as it was, the first post war West German governments were conservative.
The Republican Party is not Donald Trump's party. Just like German conservatives of the 1920s and 1930s, real conservatives made a terrible bargain with radical German populists as they were obsessed with what they thought was German decline, looked back on a mythical German past, and listened to the words of a radical and heard what they wanted to hear. They then followed along with evil thinking, most likely, that it wouldn't last forever, and at least the Nazis were addressing the Communists.
That's basically what the Republicans did.
Donald Trump spent most of his life registered as a Democrat, but at the end of they day, Trump's political party is Donald Trump. Unlike Hitler, Trump isn't a very smart man. He's a semi good salesman who mostly sells what people want to hear, and Donald Trump. He tapped into Rust Belt, Southern, rural and conservative discontent and sold it all as a movement. Truth be known, people's interest in that movement was fairly personal. People were worried about high immigration rates and wanted something done, but they weren't really for violence in the streets. And in their minds, an illegal immigrant was a guy working a construction job they couldn't get, not Maria who has been doing their shirts at the cleaners, or Jose who takes care of the sprinkler system. But, just like the German conservatives, once you have blood on your hands its hard not to have a lot more.
Indeed, it's hard not to have a lot more even if you have to endorse outright hypocrisy. Some were worried about social sexual issues, including gay marriage and transgenderism, both of which are in fact legitimate concerns. The dear leader is so worried about that such that he has Scott Bessant, a married homosexual who will support any dumb thing Trump says, in his cabinet and who has had his family photographed with Bruce Jenner post "transition". Some were worried about what they perceived as an irreligious drift in the country to such an extent they've made Trump into a near demigod even though he has no demonstrable attachment to Christianity at all. Some were worried about endless foreign wars and are now endorsing endless foreign wars.
Most people have absolutely had enough, however.
To add to it, Trump is increasingly erratic. Signs of dementia were clearly there in his first term, but now he's rocketing into insanity. He babbles absolute nonsense in the middle of the night with childish tweets that no sane adult would tolerate. If he was a member of your family you'd be seeking to have him committed.
The end result of this is completely clear. If Trump is still in office in November, the Republican Party will be destroyed. Not just defeated, but absolutely destroyed. The GOP will not regain power nationally in any serious way for a generation, assuming it simply doesn't dissolve. Local MAGA expressions, even in deeply Republican states will be put in the trash bin. Politicians who were loyal to Trump, like Mike Lee, Lindsey Graham, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Chuck Gray, Megan Degenfelder, and a host of others (including John Barrasso) will find their political careers over, even if they are still in office. Some, such as Graham, Gray and Vance, will be regarded as absolute jokes.
The only way to avoid this, and it might not be avoidable at this point, is for the 25th Amendment, or his obviously bad health, to remove Trump by November. At this point there's a fairly good reason that Trump's dementia is advancing so rapidly, and his health declining so quickly, that Trump will expire of natural causes any day now. He's not well. If death arrives him and takes him to his final reward it would spare people like Vance, Rubio and Barrasso from having to have a spine. Assuming it does not, only the 25th Amendment stands a chance of saving the Republican Party.
The 25th Amendment option has to be invoked very soon if there's any chance of saving the GOP. And by soon, I mean this month. Early voting is already starting for primaries. Voters everywhere are trashing the GOP. Virginia has been flipped to the GOP in a way that the Republicans cannot recover from for a generation. Every single day that goes by makes the extinction of the Republican Party that much more inevitable.
Political parties do not last forever. The GOP is not likely to survive Trump, and if it does, it'll be a minority party the way it was after 1932, standing for. . . well pretty much nothing but a sort of milk toast conservatism. If it boots Trump now, it stands a chance of reforming itself sufficiently before November that the looming disaster can just be a bad one, rather than a catastrophic one.
Of course, booting the demented would be dictator requires courage, something most of them lack. Most of them fear MAGA. But a breach with MAGA, which has nowhere else to go. It took Soviet tanks in Berlin to free German conservatives from the Nazis. The Republicans will be freed from MAGA, but at what cost?
If nothing is done, by January 2027, it'll be way too late. Like Red Army policemen directing the traffic in Berlin, the Democratic Party will be directing the social and legislative traffic of the country. That might be what's going to happen definitively anyway. I do not see the Republicans being able to salvage their immediate electoral fortunes. The absolute stench of Donald Trump and his betrayal of democracy sticks to them too much. But at a bare minimum, the GOP can avoid the discredit of the metaphorical fighting in the streets of Berlin, which will occur in November through January as Trump and his fanatic backers maintain they didn't loose and they aren't going to recognize the results. That will occur.
And if that' occurs, a pox on the GOP in general . That's what most Americans will think as well.
And perhaps its necessary. The party of Lincoln sold its soul and became the party of Orange Mussolini. An entity like that needs to be purged to its core, with the Lees, Tubervilles, Millers and all relegated to the political dustbin and recalled in our memories the same way that Trump will be, an embarrassing disaster.
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