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big idea: what’s next for the GOP?

the senate voted to acquit Donald. with 70% of republicans believing that Donald won the election, 56% believing QAnon is at least partly true, and 39% believing political violence is justified, the GOP has become the party of conspiracists, not conservatives.

while some think the GOP is on a death march or will splinter into a third party, the republican fever is unlikely to break soon, or be fatal. what is likely is the disintegration of their coalition, leaving only anti-establishment types (who are more likely to believe in conspiracies) to support them.

these shifts will result in republicans keeping portions of their base, but losing ground in suburbs. they’ll be relegated to minority status in the house (like after WWI, they were in the minority for basically 62 years straight). they’ll do well in the senate (given the number of rural states) and in local races (because of gerrymandering and a weak democratic machine in pink areas).

this is not the first time in ‘murican history that a party has been defined by conspiracies or open rebellion, and it won’t be the last.