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.

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    9 months ago

    Since it takes skill to build something, but even an idiot can burn it down through incompetence, they are a threat whether the people wanting to tear down the system are competent or not.

    Hell, they might be more dangerous because they are idiots who appeal to idiots.

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      9 months ago

      I love that invariably conversations about Trump all end up acknowledging he is awful, then disagreeing in exactly what kind of awful he is.