# Direction of the GOP after a hypothetical Trump drumming.

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 8, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-of-the-gop-after-a-hypothetical-trump-drumming/849105 "2020-03-08T15:23:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-of-the-gop-after-a-hypothetical-trump-drumming/849105/42 "2020-03-17T20:01:03Z")

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> [@Hatchie](#):
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> I’ve never heard Trump’s drumming, I can’t imagine he’s any good.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-of-the-gop-after-a-hypothetical-trump-drumming/849105/43 "2020-03-18T07:47:09Z")

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> [@UltraVires](#):
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> Trumpism is sui generis. It only involves Trump. The GOP has went along with it because it is a damn sight better than a President Hillary, President Sanders, or President Biden. Once Trump is gone, whether that is after the 2020 election or the 2024 election, the GOP will go back to regular GOP stuff.

Is that the Tea-Party (baghead) GOP, the destroy-the-Dems GOP, the white-supremacist GOP, the dying-demographic GOP, the nuke-Russia GOP, or some version I didn’t notice?

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**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-of-the-gop-after-a-hypothetical-trump-drumming/849105/44 "2020-03-18T10:55:36Z")

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If the GOP base is old white geezers, it seems quite possible that a lot of them are going to die this year before they can vote. On unattended gurneys in hospital corridors. A percentage of the ones that live (probably a small one, but some) will actually blame the republican shrink the government/make sure it is incompetent policy for the plague that destroyed the economy and killed so many of their friends and neighbors.

In which case the idea that we are seeing right now the grand climax and fall of the GOP is not as far-fetched.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/direction-of-the-gop-after-a-hypothetical-trump-drumming/849105/45 "2020-03-19T01:09:10Z")

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> [@Ulfreida](#):
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> If the GOP base is old white geezers, it seems quite possible that a lot of them are going to die this year before they can vote. On unattended gurneys in hospital corridors.

If my BIL dies before me, I inherit his fabulous camera and photo gear collection. I keep encouraging him to socialize more at taverns and drink much vodka, but he’s slowing down. His Hannity consumption hasn’t decreased so he’s not getting any smarter. Sad.

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