Trump's legacy: The future of the Republican Party

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15 Feb 2026, 5:40 pm

How long do you think it will take for the Republican Party to recuperate from Trump? Or will it ever recuperate?

With Trump's current war on destroying everything about America, I think that it will seriously damage the Republican Party in the next few elections.

For example, with the attacks on Mexicans, there is some thought that Texas is about to turn Democrat.

It has been reported that JD Vance has an even lower approval rating than does Trump.

I know that in the future, I am not going to view any MAGA candidate positively. I don't care who it is or who they are running against. I'll either sit out the election or probably vote for the Libertarian candidate.



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15 Feb 2026, 7:57 pm

If people were predicting the GOP's demise after the Bush era, then Trump will be the end of the party.

To me, it was when the whole Tea Party thing started that the GOP was a party I couldn't vote for, though there were a few moderates I supported. But since Trump returned to office, I have moved sharply from centrist to social democrat.

But the US doesn't have a viable social democratic party.


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15 Feb 2026, 8:02 pm

kokopelli wrote:
How long do you think it will take for the Republican Party to recuperate from Trump? Or will it ever recuperate?

With Trump's current war on destroying everything about America, I think that it will seriously damage the Republican Party in the next few elections.

For example, with the attacks on Mexicans, there is some thought that Texas is about to turn Democrat.

It has been reported that JD Vance has an even lower approval rating than does Trump.

I know that in the future, I am not going to view any MAGA candidate positively. I don't care who it is or who they are running against. I'll either sit out the election or probably vote for the Libertarian candidate.

I would vote for the Libertarian too but I dont want to throw my vote away.



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15 Feb 2026, 11:58 pm

Trump's campaign did a very good job of gaining the support of various minority groups by convincing them that Democrats were the real racists for wanting to give them SNAP benefits or something. Look how quickly he ruined that support by going after those communities.

In any case, hopefully Trump will have no legacy outside of destroying the Republican Party. The dude wants to be remembered, and we shouldn't give him that. Everything Trump had built in his honor - like the ballroom, the triumphal arch he wants built, even Trump tower - should be demolished. Every name he had changed should be changed back. Every policy he enacted should be repealed. Every likeness of him should be erased. Every publication attributed to him should go out of print. He should only be remembered as a failed president and a failed businessman, as a spoiled brat who had everything handed to him and still managed to mess it up, and as a model of what not to do in life. Furthermore, he should have no tombstone, and his body should be buried in a mass grave.


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16 Feb 2026, 12:20 am

The future of the Republican Party: Marching and heiling, heiling and marching.


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16 Feb 2026, 12:51 am

No one will ever see Republicans is the same light as before.And the democrats , do not offer any people to put up for possible , high office positions . Makes me wonder , if something else might be occuring , here?
If Trump finds a way to declare martial. He may also cancel elections also ?


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16 Feb 2026, 1:00 am

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And the democrats , do not offer any people to put up for possible , high office positions . Makes me wonder , if something else might be occuring , here?


Next you'll tell me you think the Washington Generals might not be sincerely trying their best to win either.


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17 Feb 2026, 5:12 am

Trump will be remembered by scholars of American history the same way Caligula is remembered in ancient Rome.


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17 Feb 2026, 12:44 pm

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Trump will be remembered by scholars of American history the same way Caligula is remembered in ancient Rome.

There's a great documentary on Caligula that I watched recently on YouTube (I think it's called 1400 Day of Terror or something like that). The parallels between him and Trump are astounding. Only difference is Caligula was young and healthy and had to be offed by the Praetorian Guard, whereas in Trump's case, his atrocious health will probably kill him before any sort of government conspiracy or peasant uprising does.


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17 Feb 2026, 9:17 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Trump will be remembered by scholars of American history the same way Caligula is remembered in ancient Rome.

more like Nero.



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17 Feb 2026, 10:48 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Trump will be remembered by scholars of American history the same way Caligula is remembered in ancient Rome.

more like Nero.


But Caligula was actually more demented than even Nero.


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18 Feb 2026, 3:54 am



splitting over israel, though

the american exceptionalist christians have been wired up to zionism

split back
somehow the fort huachuca money funnel isn't in my history, imagine that
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18 Feb 2026, 12:22 pm

kokopelli wrote:
How long do you think it will take for the Republican Party to recuperate from Trump? Or will it ever recuperate?

With Trump's current war on destroying everything about America, I think that it will seriously damage the Republican Party in the next few elections.

For example, with the attacks on Mexicans, there is some thought that Texas is about to turn Democrat.

It has been reported that JD Vance has an even lower approval rating than does Trump.

I know that in the future, I am not going to view any MAGA candidate positively. I don't care who it is or who they are running against. I'll either sit out the election or probably vote for the Libertarian candidate.

Trump hasn't destroyed anything about America. Unless you count fraud as American. What attacks against Mexico are you referring to?



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18 Feb 2026, 1:35 pm

Hundreds of workers set for layoff as Ford retools battery plant
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The Detroit News
Feb. 11, 2026, 11:01 p.m. ET
Dissolving of Partnership between a major automobile maker and a major South Korean battery manufacturer.

The immigration enforcement raid on Georgia Hyundai battery plant seems to have stalled a multi-billion dollar investment by Koreans in the USA.

It may be impossible to set up these high tech manufacturing facilities without the expertise of the best and the brightest of other countries like Korea.

If we can't make high tech batteries in the USA what will do instead?

I don't see the government as doing anything to help those on the spectrum become the best and the brightest of the USA.

https://detroitnews.com/story/business/ ... 551376007/



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18 Feb 2026, 2:33 pm

Bataar wrote:
kokopelli wrote:
How long do you think it will take for the Republican Party to recuperate from Trump? Or will it ever recuperate?

With Trump's current war on destroying everything about America, I think that it will seriously damage the Republican Party in the next few elections.

For example, with the attacks on Mexicans, there is some thought that Texas is about to turn Democrat.

It has been reported that JD Vance has an even lower approval rating than does Trump.

I know that in the future, I am not going to view any MAGA candidate positively. I don't care who it is or who they are running against. I'll either sit out the election or probably vote for the Libertarian candidate.

Trump hasn't destroyed anything about America. Unless you count fraud as American. What attacks against Mexico are you referring to?


You seem to be confused. I said "attacks on Mexicans", not "attacks against Mexico".

Trump is a destroyer. Not a builder. He has the idea that he can destroy things and rebuild them in the form that he wishes. The reality is that if you destroy our Institutions, what you end up with if and when they are rebuilt may bear nothing like what you expected.

Real Conservatism is about preserving what is good, not about destroying them. Trump is a radical, not a Conservative.

It seems likely that the Republicans will lose both the House and Senate. The real question is by how much.



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18 Feb 2026, 2:39 pm

kokopelli wrote:
...It seems likely that the Republicans will lose both the House and Senate. The real question is by how much...
I certainly hope so - fingers crossed :)


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