When I joined the GOP informally in 2018 and formally in 2020, I always had a mind to reform it. Trump brought me into the party. I never would have joined without Trump. I was never a fan of George Bush, John McCain, of Mitt Romney. I was not watching Lou Dobbs or reading Breitbart. I was not politically awakened in 2016.

But I was really changed by Trump's nationalist populist message. I always thought America could be better than it was. I always thought people who hated America were losers. I believe in our exceptionalism. We have to live up to that. We have to be great. And we can do it but we need much better politicians. We can do better than this boomerslop.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50229795)

*Trump gets thoroughly rejected*

"I'm happy with this result"

Also, important context... OP was wish casting all last night that the GOP would over perform. This cope is pathetic.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230697)

I smell a very tender flame mignon ITT.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230756)

2024 was a referendum against wokeness and the Democrats (so far) have learned their lesson. We'll see if the GOP can do the same thing on neoconservatism.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230565)

But last night we actually did see one element of our system manifest itself: the triumph of lunch pail issues. The economy was paramount. The yearning for the federal government to focus internally and not on ideology, not on foreign wars. This was a real meat and potatoes election. People said hey, I don't want a big construction project that ruins my neighborhood. This is the inherent benefit of individuals voting in their own self interest. It's what keeps administrators away from doing what Trump did, a bizarre pointless war on behalf of a tiny special interest group.

So to that end maybe as Millennials hit 40 something they age into their Dave Smith Libertarian era and the neocons are routed. It's interesting. McConnell is a vegetable and Graham is dead. Maybe we really are over the Bush era shit. Although I don't think that side will ever give up. They will just think up new ways to weasel into power.

What will the 28 nominee do anyways? Disavow Trump the way he disavowed Bush? At the end of the day campaigns are just propaganda. We'll have no way of knowing they won't flip for the Adelsons as soon a they're sworn in. Odds on the Dems take back the White House because people will just be so sick of MAGA by that point. Although you never can tell what will happen.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230612)

Edit: his nondenom church is about as WASPy as one could possibly get though.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230734)

This will lead to a return to the McCain and Romney (R) party, except a Mexican and Indian version.

Were absolutely fucked

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230690)

The country is over, the people are retarded, and our choices for leaders might be even more retarded

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230717)

gop has been pigeonholed as the party of white people and the democrats are savvy enough to know that in a country where almost everyone is of some kind of mixed heritage, that's a very shrinking, irrelevant identity. being the party of "everyone else" is like 70% of the population.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230692)

The one thing we can control now is whether white nationalism controls the future of the GOP. Let the 70% nons be on one side even if dominant. But every single elected Republican must be a groyper. Groypers have to take the wheel so everybody knows if these people win here's what's coming.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230715)

WASPs will move to other Anglo countries

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50230748)

Let us not forget

There is hope!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5918422&forum_id=2#50231228)