re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trumps true supporters are MAGAts, they don’t like the GOP either, but they will vote for Trump if he is their candidate.

That was noted by a number of political scientists in the aftermath of the 2016 Apocalypse. Polling and surveys seemed to indicate that Trump brought out a whole lot of bigots who’d never voted before. The trick for any Republican now would be to keep the bigot brigade together, by acting as bad or worse than Trump. Folks like Hawley, DeSantis, and Cruz are trying, but Cruz was already rejected by the same voters once.

As for “normal” Republicans, they will vote for whatever crazy floats to the top of the primaries, because they wouldn’t consider a Democrat and “who the hell else are we going to vote for anyway?” The so-called normal Republicans will happily vote us right back into Mediæval Christian Fascism (complete with the slaughter and holy wars).