From top to bottom, the national GOP organization could soon be rid of anyone seen as insufficiently MAGA.
First came the internal grumbling about Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
Then came McDaniel’s decision to step down from her post at the end of February as she lost the support of Donald Trump.
After that came Trump’s move to put forward a slate of loyalists to take over the party’s top spots—including an election-denying state party chair, a Trump campaign senior adviser, and the former president’s own daughter-in-law.
Next could come the purge.
“I think within 30 days you’ll see a purge of staffers from the RNC, because it’s a hotbed for anti-Trumpism,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and host of the War Room podcast told The Daily Beast. “That’s the open secret.”
Skeptical holdouts within the RNC have gotten the message: Their days are numbered.
It is a purge, just without all the messy killing. But there’s a reason why Stalin finished the job the way he did, and why Putin operates the way he has. There is an entire generation of political experts who are getting thrown out of the party they have supported their entire lives. Where will they go?
Also note that candidates that Trump personally endorses tend not to do that well. Some do win, of course, but not as many. Mitch has been bemoaning “candidate quality” as the reason why he doesn’t have a majority in the Senate.
One of my favorite conspiracy theories of the moment is that if Trump wins, he would prefer to take office with a fully Democratic Congress, because it makes for better TV. And when he does absolutely nothing, he can blame the Democrats for it. Trump only needs 34 Senators on his side to vote against impeachment, and he can do whatever the fuck he wants without consequences.
Purges don’t need to be associated with violence, per se. That’s just how Stalin and Hitler liked them. You can also simply throw them out of their positions though, so they can no longer stand against you.
Still a purge. Corporations sometimes do purges.
Looks at the 300,000 people laid off in tech this year alone…