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The bigger problem is that a large number of the remaining 36% will support him at all cost. (that last part is extremely important)
Those people see this as a WAR.
While everyone else is busy making some funny meme or writing a snarky comment on Twitter, those people are prepping for war. Radicalizing our youth. Stockpiling guns. Getting ready for a fight.
They see it as a war because they are finding themselves (and their ideals) in the minority and feel their voice is being taken away. I've heard those sentiments directly from their mouths. From my perspective, the problem is that instead of rallying being some other GOP candidate, they've decided to back the one who used possible criminal tactics like fake electors to ignore the peoples votes and remain in power. Something that in my opinion should amount to treason. We're finding ourselves in a shitty situation now. Stuck between a nice old man who's cognitive ability is fading and a man starving for authoritarian power and willing to take it at all cost. I don't know what is going to happen, but I'm curious to see if 2020 was the beginning of the full collapse of the Republican party and what will rise in it's ashes. A 3 party system?
No way the US process allows for a stable 3 serious parties.
I predict the GOP falls, and the DNC splits into two parties: the establishment free-market capitalists who bill themselves as the "common sense" party, and the progressives.
GOP will absorb into establishment DNC, lose the outright homophobia and fascism and fall back to the quiet dog whistles, just enough to keep the old GOP base voting for them against the progressives.
This is a good bet. As it is, with first past the post, we can't have three parties