• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    The Republican party has allowed him to be their candidate for president.

    They absolutely could choose to prevent him from having that role if they wanted to.

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        6 months ago

        He may be popular to some of them, but he’s also turned the party into a culture of personality that has abandoned most of what it used to claim to believe in.

        When he dies (or loses his ability to attract a crowd), the party will be a husk of its former self. They’ll have abandoned their principles which attracted fiscal conservatives in the past, and won’t have their cult leader to rally around.