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 McDanielā€™s decision to step down from her post at the end of February as she lost the support of Donald Trump.

After that came Trumpā€™s move to put forward a slate of loyalists to take over the partyā€™s top spotsā€”including an election-denying state party chair, a Trump campaign senior adviser, and the former presidentā€™s own daughter-in-law.

Next could come the purge.

ā€œI think within 30 days youā€™ll see a purge of staffers from the RNC, because itā€™s a hotbed for anti-Trumpism,ā€ Steve Bannon, Trumpā€™s former chief strategist and host of the War Room podcast told The Daily Beast. ā€œThatā€™s the open secret.ā€

Skeptical holdouts within the RNC have gotten the message: Their days are numbered.

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    9 months ago

    I donā€™t

    You clearly donā€™t have Facebook friends who are itching for civil war with the Democrats, or live in a rural area

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      How many of those people are actually violent and or physical and would carry out those things?

      Also depends on your age, everyoneā€™s a tough guy in high school. But regardless, thereā€™s plenty of adults that would do these things (apparently - see Jan 6th) so I guess it wouldnā€™t be that far off from WW2 stuff, but a purge where everyone kills everyone?

      No.

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        How many of those people are actually violent and or physical and would carry out those things?

        How many citizens of the Weimar republic were violent?

        There was some street fighting, marches of early Nazis carrying signs and chanting, some unofficial law enforcement agencies charged with being loyal to the leaders instead of the lawā€¦ but itā€™s not like it led toā€¦ oh waitā€¦ well, hang onā€¦

        Also depends on your age

        Nice progression ā€œdepends on your ageā€ -> ā€œyouā€™re probably in high schoolā€ -> ā€œyeah youā€™re in high schoolā€. Iā€™m older than you.

        see Jan 6th

        This kinda undoes your ā€œthese people arenā€™t really violentā€ thesis. The threat of violence already impacts the decisions of election workers and politicians. The question weā€™re debating is simply, how much. Any amount is too much.