Lol you're talking about a group of people (conservatives, not Republicans) that enshrined 3/5ths black people into the constitution, that demanded the Senate, that created poll taxes and Jim Crow laws as if they've just now hit upon voter suppression. What they've done is chosen to do it proudly, something that hasn't worked since George Wallace lost in '68. It's kind of demographically expected - you've got 'boomers whose money is running out and the world they were promised is not the world they got. But they'll die. They're doing a heckuva job at it, really - first the opioid epidemic hit them the hardest. Then they opted out of masks and vaccines. When an entire demographic has grown accustomed to running the world, and then has the world taken from them, they do two things: (1) lash out (2) perish. It doesn't really matter what Trump wants. What matters is what everyone else wants with Trump. So far? Devin Nunes wants with Trump, primarily because demographics are destiny. David Purdue wants with Trump, mostly because he's fucking hopeless otherwise. Matt Gaetz wants with Trump because he's going to need some sort of future and right now he has none. Marjorie Taylor Greene? Lauren Boebert? They don't have anything without Trump, and are purely Trumpian creatures. Sarah Palin managed to become her own thing after losing in 2008 but it only lasted four or so years. She was never able to make it stick. I don't think we have smooth sailing ahead of us. But I also think everyone on the Left is overestimating the staying power of Trump, primarily due to trauma. Yeah he raised a billion dollars with a SPAC or whatever, but I mean fuckin' Rivian raised a hundred billion with an imaginary truck. A billion ain't what it used to be.Whether Trump runs or not isn't as important as realizing that the GOP has crafted blueprints for achieving minority rule via legal means.
To be fair they would have rather had the whole black person, as the point was to get more representation. The non-slave states wanted 0% of slaves to count and slave states wanted 100%, so 60 is where they settled. The whole "conservatives think blacks are 60% of a person" trope is misunderstood. Slave owners of the time thought that blacks, or at least slaves, were 0% of a person for all purposes but getting them more votes in the House, more votes for president, and more share of tax apportionment, for which they wanted the whole person.Lol you're talking about a group of people (conservatives, not Republicans) that enshrined 3/5ths black people into the constitution...