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Donald Trump Starts To Dismantle the GOP

Shankar Narayan
4 min readSep 20, 2021

One Candidate At a Time

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Abraham Lincoln was prescient. The speech he gave more than a century ago is still relevant for internal divisions.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided,” said Abraham Lincoln.

The Republican party cannot endure, permanently half slave to Donald Trump and half free. GOP will not be dissolved. But it will cease to be divided over Donald Trump. Instead, it will soon become a party fully controlled by Donald and his minions.

The great GOP purge is underway. Take-over will be nearly complete before the midterms. Leftovers will be vanquished by 2024.

The Divided: GOP Donors

After the January 6th insurrection, it was widely believed Trump would start a new party. Trump neither moved on nor moved out. In eight months, he has firmly entrenched himself in the Republican party.

The only house that remains bitterly divided is the GOP donor house. Rupert Murdoch is busy building Florida Governor’s national profile. Oracle founder Larry Ellison has dropped millions to nudge South Carolina…

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Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan

Written by Shankar Narayan

He didn't care what he had or what he had left, he cared only about what he must do.

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