From top to bottom, the national GOP organization could soon be rid of anyone seen as insufficiently MAGA.
First came the internal grumbling about Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
Then came McDaniel’s decision to step down from her post at the end of February as she lost the support of Donald Trump.
After that came Trump’s move to put forward a slate of loyalists to take over the party’s top spots—including an election-denying state party chair, a Trump campaign senior adviser, and the former president’s own daughter-in-law.
Next could come the purge.
“I think within 30 days you’ll see a purge of staffers from the RNC, because it’s a hotbed for anti-Trumpism,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and host of the War Room podcast told The Daily Beast. “That’s the open secret.”
Skeptical holdouts within the RNC have gotten the message: Their days are numbered.
Okay - dumb European, that doesn’t really understand the finer details of the defacto two party system in the U.S.: Why don’t those former members of the RNC “just” from a new party?
Answer from Canadian: They can but the Republican name is what lots of people will just vote for. That’s why the Trumpers want it too instead of making their own party.
*They also know if they split the right wing vote between two parties, the Democrats will win.
For a time, yes. But with 3+ you start having to form aliances, negotiate, compromise, and you know… Do politics.
In theory at least
I doubt the party that just split will cooperate together.
But really with FPTP they will lose big.