jmo, the only real negative for the gop will be that there is now a litmus test: was the election stolen? The complaints that votes were stolen or fabricated are bs. The actual substance was that the dems were better able to use mail in voting in REPUBLICAN states. So every goper candidate will have to begin a campaign by telling a demonstrable lie. If not for that litmus test, imo the gop could slough off blame for an attempted coup on the Proud Boys and Antifa. But instead, every dem will have surrogates "and that's the lie and here's the damage it caused.""I think any entity that orients itself around a personality is going to have challenges," he said. He noted that Republicans lost control of the House in 2018, of the White House in 2020, and of the Senate in 2021 and said "the Republican Party was on a losing trajectory" even before January 6.
Meijer also argued that continuing to promote the lie that the election was stolen from Mr. Trump would only cause further damage.
"As long as those myths, those fictions, those lies persist, we're in for deep, deep problems as a party and as a country," he said, adding that telling Republican voters the 2020 election was rigged would also hurt them electorally. "To me it's so patently, obviously, idiotic political malpractice that I am just at a pure and utter loss at how anyone thinks this is viable longterm strategy to regain the majority or regain the trust of the public that the Republican Party can be a governing entity."
GOP Congressman Peter Meijer says Trump "destroyed" his legacy after January 6
Congressman Peter Meijer was one of ten Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump last month.www.cbsnews.com
Of course his detractors will state he was a RINO all along...
But I also think that after 2022, Republicans can just say "I'm not relitigating the 2020 election."