There's nothing in November's results to suggest the party was dead then. It should not be dead now. The thing that would kill it is Trump deciding to do so.https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1359537561958424576 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Any "the party that lost is dead" take is doomed to be wrong, but we really don't have a good example of what's happening now - the party welding itself to a potential 2024 candidate who left office deeply unliked.
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Replying to @daveweigel
The pessimistic take is 1912-1916 for the GOP, two consecutive cycles of division that only went away when the ex-POTUS died & people started focusing on the Democrats.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Trump as TR! I never thought of it that way. Certainly Dems are in better political shape now than they were on November 4, which is not usually how this stuff goes.
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A really grim extension of the comparison would add Robert Peel, whose party - like TR's - was locked out of power until after Peel was thrown from his horse & died. Although the Peelites were more like the Never Trumpers of their era, the party's managerial, pro-trade elite.
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