Summary
Mitt Romney acknowledged that Trump’s MAGA agenda now fully dominates the Republican Party, stating in a CNN interview that traditional conservatism has been overtaken.
Romney, a frequent Trump critic, admitted he was wrong about Trump losing in 2024 and predicted MAGA’s influence would extend into 2028 with figures like JD Vance.
Romney argued the GOP’s appeal to working-class voters has shifted the political landscape, while criticizing Democrats for focusing on cultural issues over economic concerns.
He claims this focus cost Democrats key demographics in the recent election.
Traditional non-maga conservatives can still work with democrats to meet some of their goals for their constituents. It’s not like they’re prevented from working together.
It’s around this time Bernie Sanders and the progressives within the Democrats starts cannibalizing the old guard too, because new blood is needed to fight for the future - and Nancy Pelosi & Co is not out, chief.
Establishment democrats need to get got.
The Republicans eventually embraced their populist wing, because they’ve accepted that’s their best chance to win elections. The Democrats, on the other hand, have been very reluctant to embrace their populist wing, because they view populism as dangerous and a threat to democracy. They think that because that’s what the scholars and academics say, and Democrats try to be very technocratic.
TBF, what the qons have embraced is all faux populism.
You’re right, I shouldn’t say they’ve embraced their populist wing, I should say they’ve captured it, or harnessed it. Trump doesn’t necessarily care about any of those populist ideas, he just knows that saying he cares about them helps him win elections.
Fascism was always the driving factor for the qons.
Remember when Romney was the end of the world, those were better times
2016 called, it wants its headline back.
Everyone who has any intelligence already knows this and has known it since his last term. It’s a cult. There is no one else other than Trump in their eyes. They’ve tapped into the cosmic fear that religion has and convinced his followers that America, if not the world, s doomed if anything were to happen to him. The fact that he won is “proof” he is chosen by God.
The GOP is dead. It is the cult of Trump.
You know a lot of people who voted for him are not Christians, yeah?