"The departure of many R.N.C. members from the former president, after moving in lock step with him for more than six years, is even more extraordinary given how many of them owe their own positions to him and his supporters."Not surprising at all. Trump is entirely transactional, and demands total loyalty. Now that he's taken on the role of grumbling, rambling old man who can't get over his obsession with losing, what can he really offer to the party?As a challenger, he lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes in 2016, and squeaked into the White House on narrow victories in the Electoral College.As an incumbent, he lost the popular vote by around eight million votes, and Biden took the White House on Electoral College margins.Trump then tried to overthrow the government, and has spent the last couple years spending every opportunity to bore his fans with rambling, self-obsessed marathons of self-pity, while not battling an array of legal problems that are by no means over.They had to lock the doors to prevent people from leaving his long, zero-energy announcement of his 2024 candidacy.Trump is transactional, and the RNC became filled with transactional followers who were conditioned to put loyalty only where it gives them something back.The GOP has lost the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential election cycles.  Trump energizes the opposition at least as much as he energizes the MAGAs.That's not a winning formula.

"The departure of many R.N.C. members from the former president, after moving in lock step with him for more than six years, is even more extraordinary given how many of them owe their own positions to him and his supporters."Not surprising at all. Trump is entirely transactional, and demands total loyalty. Now that he's taken on the role of grumbling, rambling old man who can't get over his obsession with losing, what can he really offer to the party?As a challenger, he lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes in 2016, and squeaked into the White House on narrow victories in the Electoral College.As an incumbent, he lost the popular vote by around eight million votes, and Biden took the White House on Electoral College margins.Trump then tried to overthrow the government, and has spent the last couple years spending every opportunity to bore his fans with rambling, self-obsessed marathons of self-pity, while not battling an array of legal problems that are by no means over.They had to lock the doors to prevent people from leaving his long, zero-energy announcement of his 2024 candidacy.Trump is transactional, and the RNC became filled with transactional followers who were conditioned to put loyalty only where it gives them something back.The GOP has lost the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential election cycles.  Trump energizes the opposition at least as much as he energizes the MAGAs.That's not a winning formula.

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