Republicans lost the popular vote by 3.5 million in 2016 and they lost it by 7 million in 2020. I would agree with Atlanta-based journalist Dr. Rashad Richey that we will probably not see the Republicans win another presidency in our lifetime. Obviously, what would secure that would be an abandonment of the arcane Electoral College system. In the meanwhile, the *majority* of the country simply does not support either the old guard John McCain/Mitt Romney wing of the party or the new, race-baiting Trump/Bannon wing. And it is the fact of this inexorable decline in popularity of the Republican Party - relative to the Democrats - that is driving some of the out-of-control madness and desperation that we are witnessing.
It is likely that only Orphan Maker, with his high-flying WWF BS showmanship, could have sold the race-baiting agenda so successfully. There is no other real estate tycoon, reality show star waiting in the wings for the GOP. Fascists of the grim Josh Hawley/Stephen Miller variety may step in to try to seize the brass ring. More clownish charlatans like Matt Gaetz or the hapless Ted Cruz will also try to assume the mantle of the new fascist wing of the party. They will all fail... because none of them has the chintzy, zirconium glint that Donald possesses. Frankly, the Republicans are fucked eight ways to Sunday.
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