The pledge includes a clause saying that the candidate will support the eventual GOP nominee.
I will never, ever understand how the entire Republican party lined up behind this guy.
Before Trump was elected, they were all vocal about how unfit he was. Too stupid. Too rude.
Then he got the nomination, and they all bent the knee, and became so loyal to him that they protected him from facing the consequences of his insurrection, even when he put their lives in danger.
They hate libs so much they will fall in line behind anyone.
Well, he became the guy who would sign their shitty legislation, appoint right-wing judges and other officials to long-term positions, undermine regulators, spread fascist propaganda amplified by the power of the presidency, etc. The person with the R next to their name opens the doors for the flood of partisan garbage and shuts down those pesky people who want things like “democracy” and “tap water that doesn’t poison my family.”
The people who were criticizing Trump in the beginning were the ones with brains, that had gotten to the top to exploit power. They’re smart enough to know not to fight against the mob that is their support base. But also stupid enough to bring in someone that can rile up the mob better than they could.
Power. Plain and simple.
He did exactly what republicans wanted to do just he kept saying the quiet part loud. Now they are stuck. He is a result of decades of right wing talk radio and tv telling people everyone who disagrees is a satan worshipping pedophile. I fear he wont be the worst though
Same reason the anti-war democrats fell completely silent when Obama got elected, doubled the drone strikes, renewed the Patriot act, and attacked 2 more countries. Party matters a lot more than policy in this country.
I remember being one of the few people protesting at Time Square when John Kerry was beating the war drums for a Syrian invasion. None of the anti-war groups were interested in attacking Obama.
Hilarious what that commitment to towing the party line got them
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The funny thing is that I think BEFORE Trump, Democrats might have been to some degree susceptible to the same sort of willful blindness to an awful human being who nonetheless supported our policy agenda.
But now, having watched, with disgust, the moral corruption in the Republican party, Democrats are now hypersensitive to it. We have all become more self critical, and more righteous because we’ve seen what a slippery slope it is that the Republicans fell down.
By contrast, Republicans have so much (mostly figurative) blood on their hands that they can’t admit they were wrong about Trump. They can’t admit it to us, and they certainly can’t admit it to themselves. If they were to acknowledge the glaringly obvious facts about Trump’s criminality regarding the attempt to overthrow the election or his theft, mishandling, and cover-up of classified documents, that would mean admitting that Democrats were right about Trump all along.
It’s clear that Republicans would rather lobotomize themselves with Fox News than ever, ever, ever, admit to themselves that they’ve been the bad guys for years.
My theory is that he dug up tons of leverage for each and every one of them. He talks like a mobster, deals like a mobster, decides like a mobster, he certainly keeps his posse in line like a mobster.
This is great news IMO
He’ll run on his own Freedom Party ticket and we’ll get a 3-party election. Oh no, now the rightwing votes are split. Bummer!
Much more likely at this point that he just wins the nomination. There is still time for that to change, but nothing that indicates that it will.
The GOP is in a terrible state
We all know they’re in Mississippi, but there are chapters in some good states, too.
Ah, the ol’… Wait a minute, what site am I on?
The old lemmy swap-a-doodle.
Hello future people?
We’ve all been lemmboozled!
The US is in a terrible state. Mostly because of the GOP.
Right, there’s really no reason for Trump to participate in the debates anyway - he’s way far out in front, so it would only hurt him. Hell, this might even be an excuse to skip them without looking like he’s afraid to.
Trump doesn’t believe he will win the nomination. If he believed he would win, there would be no problem with him signing the pledge. He believes the eventual nominee will be one of 3 or 4 people he despises and cannot support.
He’ll run on his own Freedom Party ticket and we’ll get a 3-party election. Oh no, now the rightwing votes are split. Bummer!
Republicans are too spineless. Realistically trump will threaten to run third party, and they will forgo the primaries and hand him the nomination.
Isn’t that a little unconstitutional? I know that hasn’t stopped them in the past, but just straight up cancelling a vote of the people is more blatantly fascist than I’d expect from even them.
The political parties are private organizations. They can do whatever they want with their nomination process.
Yeah in short even the democratic party notes that. When the DNC was sued under the accusation of rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders. The case was thrown out for lack of standing. In short the DNC said “You are accusing us of rigging the primaries… but rigging the primaries isn’t a crime so there’s no reason to spend the time proving it one way or the other”.
Primaries aren’t in the constitution
It says that if there is a primary election, citizens cannot be refused the right to vote due to not paying taxes or a “poll tax”
It says nothing about when or if such an election should be held.
Then don’t let him debate. Why is this hard?
Don’t even let him run. Like grow a fucking backbone, ya ignoramuses.
No one will tune in to the debates if Trump isn’t there and everyone knows it.
The networks that broadcast the debates want drama because they want views. Trump speaking is one of the biggest draws they can get. I mean he’s a bumbling idiot but everyone, left and right, is gonna want to know what he says.
He doesn’t WANT to debate, why does nobody see this lol. We will never see him debate again
Republicans don’t watch the debates, and literally cheered their candidates for ducking debates with democrats last election.
If they did watch debates, they would realize their candidates had zero platform worth voting for. The ones that do watch them are there for the drama, which this move also satisfies.
Ehh. Trump did terrible in the 2020 debates(although Pence did okay)- but the CNN townhall reflected well on him.
Trump is loyal to no one but himself. Even if he did sign it he would never honor it.
Honestly they should all refuse to sign it because the bastards should not agree to support the traitor Trump if he wins the nomination.
Trump believes he is going to lose the nomination. If he thought he was going to be the nominee, there wouldn’t be a problem signing the loyalty pledge. He believes the 3 or 4 other candidates he despises have a better chance at winning the nomination than he does.
