Readers respond to Question of the Week: GOP changed for good post-Trump?
The word `good' does not apply for this Ike GOPer
I was a proud Eisenhower Republican back when the party was decent and principled. And even though Nixon drove me away, the GOP remained a basically honorable entity. Then came Donald Trump, a completely unprincipled man with no saving graces, a thoroughly dishonest, totally self-serving scoundrel with not a shred of decency, and I mean this literally. I really thought the oncevirtuous GOP would disavow themselves of this profoundly vile and corrupt individual. But, no, some 147 elected GOP representatives refused to accept the results of the 2020 election and instead have clung to the Big
Lie to the present day, showing they, like Trump, have no use for democratic norms. The Democrats, inept stumblebums that they may be, at least are the one party concerned with the common good.
This country will be changed forever
If the Republicans are stupid enough to run Trump for president again, this country will be changed for good, because Trump is a proven loser, and the leftists who own the Democratic Party can barely wait to finish the wrecking job they've already begun on California and the rest of the U.S. Even if Trump should somehow manage to stumble his way to another squeak-through victory like the one in 2016, we're still in trouble, because Trump is a self-absorbed, clueless amateur who requires seasoned handlers to correct his grotesque mistakes (see former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper's recent book “A Sacred Oath”), and we may not be as lucky as we were last time.
No post-Trump scenario
I am sorry that I don't see a post-Trump scenario with the GOP. Just what are the Republicans afraid of? Trump has been shown to be a poor choice as a leader over and over again. His actions and speeches exemplify his lack of integrity. The people who support him are unable to see that he desperately wants to be a dictator. His admiration for Putin and North Korea and his inability to accept a loss speak very loudly about the kind of a man he isn't.