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mercuryblues

(16,079 posts)
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 05:06 PM Nov 20

The GOP Is About To Devour Its Own King

Why Trump’s Loyalists Should Be Terrified...And Why the Power Brokers Are Already Sharpening Their Knives

But here’s the thing about authoritarian movements:
Loyalty is never loyalty.
It’s leverage.

Trump was the vehicle.
Trump was the chaos engine.
Trump was the useful monster dragging their agenda across broken glass.

But Donald Trump is no longer a vehicle.
He’s a liability.

More importantly…he’s a liability they can no longer control.
He’s volatile.
He’s reckless.
He’s legally radioactive.
And he’s infected with the one disease the GOP donor class fears more than inflation… more than immigration…more than a Democratic landslide:

Uncontainable exposure.
When the cost of protecting the authoritarian…becomes greater than the cost of eliminating him…

…the system eliminates him.

Quietly.
Efficiently.
With a smile so polite it feels like a threat.

And that process has now begun.
More at:
https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-gop-is-about-to-devour-its-own?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


What stage are we in?

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The GOP Is About To Devour Its Own King (Original Post) mercuryblues Nov 20 OP
Trump was always just the snake oil salesmen hired by the billionaires and our foreign enemies. Irish_Dem Nov 20 #1
Yup. mercuryblues Nov 20 #2
The thing they loved about Trump is now the reason they hate him. Irish_Dem Nov 20 #3
Vance will be nothing more tha a place holder mercuryblues Nov 20 #5
Wait, WHAAAT?!? Fiendish Thingy Nov 20 #4
He's losing his protection. mercuryblues Nov 20 #6
Devour? usonian Nov 20 #7
GOP, Grand Obnoxious Prevaricators. Donman Nov 20 #8
I suspect there will be gagging and retching as they choke him down NotASurfer Nov 20 #9

Irish_Dem

(78,557 posts)
1. Trump was always just the snake oil salesmen hired by the billionaires and our foreign enemies.
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 05:22 PM
Nov 20

He is totally expendable.

mercuryblues

(16,079 posts)
2. Yup.
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 05:27 PM
Nov 20

His crazy is why they wanted him, his crazy is why he must now go.
Frankenstein can't control the monster they created,

mercuryblues

(16,079 posts)
5. Vance will be nothing more tha a place holder
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 05:44 PM
Nov 20

It is cheaper for the rich to pay taxes, than to "donate" to the gluttonous pig.

Fiendish Thingy

(21,724 posts)
4. Wait, WHAAAT?!?
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 05:42 PM
Nov 20

You mean to tell me, after the hundreds of defeatist doomer threads I’ve read telling me the exact opposite, that Trump is NOT omnipotent, and the people are not powerless?

mercuryblues

(16,079 posts)
6. He's losing his protection.
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 05:48 PM
Nov 20

The ouster is starting from the elite. It may be a slow roll, but it will build up into an avalanche.

Donman

(39 posts)
8. GOP, Grand Obnoxious Prevaricators.
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 06:38 PM
Nov 20

Let them devour Trump. May they all suffer from ptomaine poisoning. They've already poisoned our country with their heartlessness.

NotASurfer

(2,360 posts)
9. I suspect there will be gagging and retching as they choke him down
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 07:38 PM
Nov 20

Several will hurt themselves gorging, and gorge only because they know deep down it must be done to own up.

May it be disgusting, disturbing, and glorious to behold

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