Kasich: GOP under Trump doesn't resemble the Republican Party

[mvd10]

A lot of Trump cultists are cucks and traitors who voted for loads of f**ing Democrats in the past. When Trump loses in a landslide the purge is coming .

(tbh I would have voted Hillary in 2016 but before that it's straight Republican since the 1910s, maybe I would have voted for Johnson in 1964 though, but I'm not sure about that)

[mvd10]

Perhaps Kasich should consider that there is a reason that Trump won the GOP primary and the presidency. It's Trump's party now. Movement conservatism is dead. Kasich's ideas do not resemble the Republican Party.

So dead that Trump has been busting unions, slashing regulations and cutting taxes . Trump's drawbacks are the trade wars and his deranged behaviour, otherwise I'd totally be supporting him (and so would nearly all morally outraged NeverTrumpers or suburban Romney-Clinton voters, they'd gladly jump on the anti-immigration bandwagon if Mitt Romney was leading it). At this stage Trump probably loses in 2020 and by 2024 all NeverTrumpers will be rooting for Tom Cotton even though he'd be running as Trump minus the trade wars and the deranged behaviour.

[mvd10]

If he really wants to torpedo Trump's chances in 2020, he should not only primary him, but continue running in the general. He and Flake could run together and peel off enough support to make a difference. A Democratic White House might leave a bad taste in his mouth, but he may calculate that it is worth it if it diverts the GOP from going further down the road of Trumpism in the long run. I think he realizes that he probably will never be president at this point, and 2016 could have been his year if Trump had never run. It could be a mixture of revenge and "Look at it this way, I'm doing you guys a favor. You'll see."

Spoiler: More Democrats like John Kasich in 2018 than Republicans do. Check the crosstabs in his Ohio approval rating. The idea of a third party ticket hurting Trump is wishful thinking.

They like him because he's criticizing Trump. But if he ran he'd probably still mostly win Republicans (or former Republicans actually) since Democrats don't like his policies at all and would vote for their own nominee. Kasich getting 10-15% of people who identify as Republican (or Republicans + R-leaning indies) should pretty much finish Trump off. Unless the Democratic ticket also is hurt by third parties lol.