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Yeah, they've all done a bang-up job over the last four years.
That's a bit like saying because you found a hair in your soup - which you found bland and overpriced - that you want a shit sandwich instead.
I didn't say I wanted the shit sandwich. I'm saying I don't trust them to keep the shit sandwich away from my plate.
How? Why?
Do you not remember last time? And why do you think losing an election will keep a loyalist out of power?
1a. How: The law. Literally Trump "can't" just say "I'm going to run again". The constitution forbids it. Now I'm not saying that will stop all the states from putting him on the ballot, but it will stop many, and that's enough to get any sane Republican screaming for an alternative. 1b. Why: The law. Republicans know perfectly well Trump is a shit-show, but they lacked the courage to say no to a 2nd term. A third term puts them into not-needing-a-spine-to-say-no territory. Many desperately want to get rid of him and that is their safe opportunity. 2. Of course I do. I also remember the attempted coup failed miserably. And anyway that is quite different from running in the primary.
The Law Is Not A Magic Spell. It's a set of agreements enforced by violence. All the enforcers are fanatical fascists. And the last sane republican I know of died in February 2012. He hadn't voted for president this century. If those were still a thing; we wouldnt be in this position.
So, still not a magic spell. I'm afraid you dont know how cultists, social conformity, or sunk costs work. They're going to have endorsed the horrible things that happen here. They can't accept culpability for that. You know what they say;
Or something.
The coup failed because hisbpeople were profoundly incompetent and mostly senile. You'll notice the police and military dispatchers we suspiciously slow that day. It was just the poor rubes already on the ground there responding to this shit. The courts largely declined to ounish abuobe involved; all thd s um eho organized it got off clean, and even the worst of the nazis on the ground got milder sentences than any ive seen for juat being near someone who broke a window in 2020. What does any of this have to do with primaries? Why would they hold a primary?