The GOP, the big lie and the Avignon papacy
Otherwise reasonable people look the other way on Trump's foibles because they like his tax policies and love what he has done on appointing pro-life judges. The 6th Circuit has changed its mind on Down's Syndrome Abortions, largely because of Trump and McConnell.
The only way to peel right to lifer's off of Trump is to utterly defeat the idea that the unborn will ever have legal protection outside of Biden's increased child tax credits. This is hard sell, as when support for the right to life is like support for puppies. True believers will not listen to the constitutional realities on abortion - which they consider legalese. Until an effort is made, however, Trump can do no wrong.
Trump voters have been programmed to believe that Trump was a successful executive and the real media are lying about his history of failure. They certainly don't believe him to be a Russian agent and until Federal prosecutors follow the money, they won't. Some of the Trump fans believe that Nixon was railroaded, so he will always have core support. If Rudy and Donnie go to jail as Russian spies, there may be hope for the GOP.
The GOP's Avignon will be Lincoln Project and Bush Republicans. Many of these have left the party, except when it is time to vote. Given a reasonable conservative agenda, the GOP may survive. Without one, the neo-liberal wing of the Democratic Party is the only refuge. Tax simplification, an honest discussion of who holds the debt and who must pay it back, doubling down on family income an anti-Putin foreign policy could do the trick. The fact that John Kasich is tweeting up a storm should be a clue that the GOP may still have some life in it.
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