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If Trump loses will republicans return to normal?

When voters put Obama into the White House in 2008, Republicans set out to make sure they couldn’t govern. Mitch McConnell (R–KY) became Senate minority leader in 2007 and, using the filibuster, stopped most Democratic measures by requiring 60 votes to move anything to a vote.

In 2010 the Supreme Court handed down the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, declaring that corporations and other outside groups could spend as much money as they wanted on elections. Citizens United increased Republican seats in legislative bodies, and in the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans packed state legislatures with their own candidates in time to be in charge of redistricting their states after the 2010 census. Republicans controlled the key states of Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, and Michigan, as well as other, smaller states, and after the election, they used precise computer models to win previously Democratic House seats.

In the 2012 election, Democrats won the White House decisively, the Senate easily, and a majority of 1.4 million votes for House candidates. Yet Republicans came away with a thirty-three-seat majority in the House of Representatives. And then, with the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, making it harder to protect Democratic voters.

As the Republicans skewed the mechanics of government to favor themselves, their candidates no longer had to worry they would lose general elections but did have to worry about losing primaries to more extreme challengers. So they swung farther and farther to the right, demonizing the Democrats until finally those who remain Republicans have given up on democracy altogether.

The state of politics in the US where everyone is mad and crazy is optional. All we have to do to be rid of it is not vote for it. And I think a lot of former republicans would like to return to a more civilized time.
Yes, if Trump loses handily they will accept it as exactly the foul tasting medicine their party needs to be rid of the epidemic of violence and rage, and get better.
No if Trump loses they will double down again and try to steal the election through far right activist judges and if that fails by bloody revolution.
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To clarify, I'm talking about normal republicans, not these Maga weirdos that have been indoctrinated by far right media into a rage and grievance addiction. They are the loudest but they are a minority. The right leaning centrists that used to define the party but can't bring themselves to vote for any Democrat. Who don't want Trump but will probably vote for him as what they consider the slightly lesser fo two evils - What will they do if trump loses? Will they take their party back?
If Trump loses will republicans return to normal?
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