For instance, Google snagged laudatory headlines for withdrawing donations to any Republicans who voted to overthrow Joe Biden's electoral win, but buried in the text was that Google 'will not be making any contributions this cycle.' Emphasis mine, because this is an off-year with no federal elections. Their conclusion to the question of whether Republicans are bleeding support: 'Eh, not really.'Īs for all those business leaders supposedly peacing out, well, it's important to read the fine print. The Post's follow-up report looks at how Republican leadership is now lining up behind the fascistic ex-president and fighting Democratic efforts to convict Trump and prevent him from running again. Here at Salon, Parton Wednesday's column hit on the same theme, nothing that 'Mitch McConnell believes in power,' and that falling in line behind the Trump faction is apparently what he believes will get it for him.Īnd all those supposed Republican voter de-registrations? Philip Bump and Lenny Bronner of the Washington Post did an in-depth analysis of historical trends.

Sure enough, on Wednesday, the same two reporters who recently wrote the Washington Post article about Republicans in disarray - Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer - circled around with a very different headline: ' Republicans back away from confronting Trump and his loyalists after the Capitol insurrection, embracing them instead.' Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics? Subscribe to her newsletter Standing Room Only. That is how it always is and always shall be, or at least until they can end this whole 'holding elections' business altogether. Republicans know that power means winning elections and winning elections means sticking together. That level of self-defeating stupidity is a solidly progressive flaw. They may believe that there's an international cabal of blood-drinking Satanist pedophiles, but Republicans aren't so dumb as to think that there's anything to be gained from third parties or withholding their votes altogether. I was skeptical, believing as I do that there are three inevitabilities in life: Death, taxes, and that Republicans are far too attached to power to demobilize. Even we here at Salon got in on the action, with Heather 'Digby' Parton writing a piece about 'the inevitable post-election Republican implosion' resulting from the conflict between the QAnon types and the more staid (though also democracy-hostile) Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

There were similarly exciting stories about how business leaders were pulling away from the Republican Party and Republicans in battleground states were changing their party registration. This followed earlier reporting about a 'itter split GOP' promising 'Republicans in open warfare' and similar reporting from the New York Times promising that 'bitter infighting underscores the deep divisions' in the GOP.

Last weekend, the Washington Post ran a story headlined, 'Trump jumps into a divisive battle over the Republican Party - with a threat to start a 'MAGA Party.'' It focused on the internal battle between the (relatively few) Republicans who are angry about Donald Trump inciting an insurrection on the Capitol and the more numerous Republicans who are gung-ho about this turn towards fascism and cannot wait to push it further. File it under too good to be true: The much-anticipated great Republican crack-up is not coming.

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