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Trump: The complete take over of the Republican machinery

The new boss of the Republican party is Donald Trump's Daughter-in-law.  Yesterday Laura Trump announced that 100% of the Republican party's election efforts were to get Trump elected.  On the same day, Donald Trump announced that he had no interest in bringing Nikki Haley voters into the fold, he deemed them traitors.  Trump told about 30% of Republican primary voters to go away!  

These two actions are impressive and show the depth of trouble of the Republican party.  The job of the Republican party is to not only get the President elected but there are thousands of races all over the country where they get involved either providing logistics support or money.  These races are all cut off.  Primary voters are the core of the party, they spend months sometimes years working for the cause.  They are fully engaged in the political process.  Now, they have been told they are traitors! 

It takes a special kind of narcissism to think that you can win when the most dedicated followers are told to take a hike.  Most will hear the message and will probably simply sit out the November elections.  Primary exit polls showed that 80% of those who were voting for Nikki Haley will not vote for Trump, but it gets much worse because these grassroots party workers are also catalysts to encourage other Republicans to go and vote on the day.  

The Trump family sees his election as the only get-out-of-jail card he has remaining, Trump assumes that he can delay things until after January 6th, 2025 when he takes office he will be protected from all these lawsuits.  In that context, the Trump takeover makes perfect sense.  At the very least it would stop criminal and civil lawsuits until 2028.  Buying more time for Trump.  

This may be the final nail in the modern Republican party as it is known.  The vast majority of businesspeople don't recognize the party, and national security hawks are gone too.  Instead, big labour, white supremacists, anti-immigration and religious groups will support the party, with a large contingent of Latino voters.  The new Republicans resemble the Democratic party because for the first time, in almost a century the GOP is an alliance of groups that do not see eye to eye on several issues.  This explains the popularity of Donald Trump, for Trump is not for anything he is a grievance machine, and being against something, and making light of difficult problems is very easy for issue-driven supporters.

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