The Republican Party Implodes

The Republican Party founded in 1854 by anti-slavery Whigs is in the process of imploding. In just two days the party lost two Senate seats in Georgia, witnessed the sacking of the Capitol by insurrectionist vandals incited by President Trump and then two-thirds of Republican House members including their leader Kevin McCarthy and eight senators voted to overturn the lawful election of Joe Biden. Particularly repugnant was the behavior of the faux populist Senators and former Supreme Court clerks Ted Cruz (Princeton, Harvard) and Josh Hawley (Stanford, Yale).  These two made their beds with Trump and they will now have to lie sleepless in those beds of thorns.

It is beyond me how Senators Romney, Thune, Toomey and Saase and Congressmembers Liz Cheney and Kinzinger can remain in a party where the Trump-Cruz-Hawley retain the backing of a majority of the membership, even after the attack on the Capitol. Thus my guess is that the Republican Party is about to split along the lines of my November 2018 blogpost (See: Shulmaven: The Coming Political Realignment: Part II ) where the establishment Republicans, the right-Hamiltonians join up with the Democratic Party, the left-Hamiltonians. They have more in common with the Democrats than what remains of the Republican Party which will become a modern version of the 1840's Know Nothing Party. 

The split will be exacerbated by what I expect to be a Trump Pardonpalooza late next week (See: Shulmaven: Trump's Pardonpalooza Coming Christmas Eve ) when he pardons himself, his family and all of his co-conspirators. And if that won't be enough the Trumpistas will be wallowing their "They stole it slogan" a version of Weimar Germany's "stab in the back" and "November criminals" memes of the fascists of that era. (See: Shulmaven: Trump's Big Lie and the Legacy of 1918 Germany)

Make no mistake the Democratic Party with its cancel culture left, defund the police mobs, high tax mentality and its elite haughtiness is no bed of roses, but at least for the most part, it respects our constitutional processes. Moreover if enough Republicans join, the Democrats just might be moved ever so gently to the Right. As that happens with or without this movement the Democratic Party will likely split with the Left forming a social democratic party, a la Eugene Debs in the early 1900's.