Was the GOP as obsolete as the democrats now are in early 2009?

That's what we were told by the leftists mainstream media in their attempts to suppress our votes and support. Pussy GOPers believed it as well.

Trump proved this shite wrong though. MAGA

I remember when people thought trump was going to destroy the Republican Party

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The democrats are considered the weakest in over 100 years. Did people consider the GOP as broken as the dems currently are in 2009?

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Not as broken, I don't think. Seems the GOP won some special elections then, and the Dems could not. I could be wrong, as I am going strictly by memory, and the memory isn't as good as it once was.

No, the Republicans on the national level were basically self-repudiating, mostly because of the Iraq War. Also, most Conservatives were sick with Bush over TARP. So I think most Repubs saw the McCain loss as earned-karma.

But they still had the SCOTUS, the State houses, The Governorships etc. The Dems by comparison, are historically decimated and ripe for a third party insurgency. Which, as bad as Congressional Republicans suck, is a minor miracle.

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But they still had the SCOTUS, the State houses, The Governorships etc. The Dems by comparison, are historically decimated and ripe for a third party insurgency. Which, as bad as Congressional Republicans suck, is a minor miracle.

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Lol no they didn't. Democratics had majority of governorships and state houses after 2008 election. GOP had SCOTUS, but that fell away once two GOP justices retired.

I'm amused because if Democrats could merely get out of their own way, they'd be winning some of these elections.

But even when Ossoff runs as a moderate Republican, the base is out there telling moderate Republicans who might otherwise vote for him that they're basically nazis.

The big differences is that after the bloodbath of 2008, republican voters revolted, not by voting for the GOP, but by changing the GOP. The Tea Party sprang up in defiance of TARP and the Bailouts, and went mainstream with their opposition to Obamacare. They started primarying republicans left and right. The GOP in 2008 was dying, and 2010 was a reformation. Now, this Reformation has led to a very sharply divided party, but one that still is cobbled together electorally. They fight among themselves, but still unite against the democrats at the ballot box.

Basically, Obamacare was just what the GOP needed to unite itself (at least against the other party). The GOP is still seeking inter-party unity and is still at war within itself.

The problem for the DNC is that, unlike the GOP, they are fighting 2 attempts at reformation, one from the economically-minded populist left (Bernie Sanders democratic socialism) and one from the social justice authoritarian left (social Marxism and critical race theory). The establishment of the party wants to use both while being neither, but is starting to see its voters demand results. Both visions are completely repugnant to a majority of the electorate, so they are stuck with trying to pander to each fringe to get nominated while lying about not belonging to either fringe in the general. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they reject both wings, then they are left as a rudderless party lacking any identifiable principles upon which they govern. If they except either wing, they completely alienate independents. Both wings are completely self-destructive to the country as a whole. The Dems are basically completely screwed unless the GOP gifts them an Obamacare, a piece of legislation so toxic that the in-fighting dems and disgusted moderates will unite against a common-enemy when necessary.