The GOP donor class hates us

At the core of the Republican Party's problem and why it continuously deals its base and greater coalitions devastating betrayals, is that it is literally built on a lie.

The GOP donor class doesn't at all share the views the party claims to champion. It actively dislikes the…

— Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT (@Peoples_Pundit) July 3, 2026

At the core of the Republican Party’s problem and why it continuously deals its base and greater coalitions devastating betrayals, is that it is literally built on a lie.

The GOP donor class doesn’t at all share the views the party claims to champion. It actively dislikes the very voters it begs for support each cycle.

And that class has never had any intention of delivering for them because that base has tolerated it for so long. They use those failures to perpetually run on issues they themselves don’t feel any real need to address.

That gorge of a divide between the voters and donors is also why previous attempts to reform it and right those wrongs, have failed. Previous movements like the Tea Party and now MAGA are really just the latest in a long history.

Eventually they get co-opted, weakened, absorbed and defeated, and nothing changes.

Trump was able to take over the party in 2016 because it had been weakened by repeated defeats resulting from repeated political betrayals.

Now that MAGA has been co-opted and brand irrefutably damaged, the establishment is too strong to reform again.

It can’t be reformed. It has to be replaced.

It would be fairly easy to weaken and destroy the Republican Party in one cycle. Send it the way of the Whigs.

The likelihood it dies alone of natural causes once Trump is gone is high anyway.

So, for people making the case third parties don’t work or solve anything, I’d say 1) they’re correct. That’s why the goal shouldn’t be to have an alternative to the GOP. The goal should be to destroy and replace it. And 2) you aren’t winning anything, anyway. It kinda renders the entire point moot.