The former president, in a typically loud post on his social media platform Truth Social, claimed that FBI agents had been authorized to use ‘deadly force’ during the raid of his Florida property
He may be popular to some of them, but he’s also turned the party into a culture of personality that has abandoned most of what it used to claim to believe in.
When he dies (or loses his ability to attract a crowd), the party will be a husk of its former self. They’ll have abandoned their principles which attracted fiscal conservatives in the past, and won’t have their cult leader to rally around.
The Republican party has allowed him to be their candidate for president.
They absolutely could choose to prevent him from having that role if they wanted to.
And they don’t want that. Trump is extremely popular within the party. Not sure your point.
He may be popular to some of them, but he’s also turned the party into a culture of personality that has abandoned most of what it used to claim to believe in.
When he dies (or loses his ability to attract a crowd), the party will be a husk of its former self. They’ll have abandoned their principles which attracted fiscal conservatives in the past, and won’t have their cult leader to rally around.