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Mike Joshi's avatar

The calculation by McCarthy and McConnell, cynical as it may have been, was that had they followed through Trump would have left the Republican party and taken the majority of its voters with him. The party would have permanently splintered and gone the way of the Whigs.

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suzc's avatar

It has done that anyway.

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