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There is no point for a Republican to fight Trump now. He'll be out of power in 2 years, so it's much smarter to just wait him out.

What happens then will be very interesting!

I don't see anyone who can keep wielding Trump's power.

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There's also the benefit of following the strategy the Democrats as a larger party have followed since at least George W. Bush. Let someone stupider or bolder break a system that's hampering you, and then just never fix it because it benefits you. Disregard that with it broken your opponent can, will, and does cause more harm to everyone. We've been in a cycle of one side smashing whatever makes them upset at the moment, and then the other side just walking over the shards now that they don't have to detour around it.

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