Chaos at the Republican National Committee (RNC)

Choosing loyalty over competence and experience

MartinEdic
4 min readApr 9, 2024

Campaign headquarters? Photo by Sergei Wing on Unsplash

A political party’s national committee is the central organizer and fundraising arm of the party, the place where campaigns are carefully planned, and executed with extensive ground operations during major elections. Those ground operations include volunteer recruitment, get out the vote efforts, supporting party candidates up and down the ticket, and much more.

They are the lifeblood of a party during an election cycle. But the Donald Trump campaign has drained the blood out of the RNC, replacing it with rapid Trump loyalists whose only criteria for being hired is that loyalty.

To put it bluntly, Trump is sucking that lifeblood out of the Party and changing it into nothing but a means to funnel money into his pockets and pay his exorbitant legal bills.

It started when Trump forced out their extremely loyal Trumpist leader, Ronna McDaniels and replaced her with two co-leaders, a MAGA wack job and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, wife of son Eric. They then asked for the resignations of over 60 experienced staffers so they could install loyalists.

The results are already disastrous, unless you are a Democrat. Because they removed those with extensive national campaign experience, they…

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MartinEdic
MartinEdic

Written by MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!

Responses (9)

What are your thoughts?

Even for Trump, this scam is enormous in scale. But the reality is that he is terrible at scamming people and getting away with it.

Yet to be punished for any of his crimes to society - kind of getting away with it so far. Trump is the poster boy for white solidarity - which is actually why his hardcore base and even his silent supporters continue to support him.

We are at a…...

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It couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch. The GOP sold its soul to the devil and now they're forced to pay for that choice. Personally, I'm enjoying watching the RNC self-destruct. Where's the popcorn?

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🙏🏼 Hopefully Trump ‘shoots’ himself in both feet, is fined $B’s and goes to jail. The GOP then rounds up the MAGAtts and puts them in jail. As insurrection is now legal (?), if Trump were to win in November then he could legally be opposed by…...

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