There have been few in the GOP who have had the guts.

If Donnie had lost this election and both houses of Congress, he would have fallen out of favor and Mitt was waiting in the wings to assume full control of a "new" GOP

And has been for a few years.

It's like saying the Democratic Party in the '90s was entirely neo-liberals, or in 2023 were all progressives.

MAGA is a controlling majority for the (R) party, to be sure, but there are others that despise Trump but despised Harris even more.

Every election result is a mix of "I really want to vote for this person," "I guess I'll vote for this person" and "Ewww ... I gotta vote against that person!"

I mean, look at straight ticket voters. Most vote down-ballot by party, but can they honestly say, "Yes, knowing nothing about this person and seeing that person's name for the first time while in the voting booth, I really wanted that person to win because I stand with him/her on all the issues and the candidate's life story and plans for the future strongly resonate with me"?

Some of it's "I guess I'll vote for this person," to the extent their eyesight allows them to resolve "R" from "D" and maybe with an appended "go team!" and sometimes it's "Yeah, not that dork, better the person you don't know than the person you know and can't stand."

Every party that's won an election in any state I've lived in (so that should include Greens, Libertarians, and all the podunk mini-parties) is guided by a minority that forms the core of the majority, with all the add-ons pushing them over the finish line. I knew people at work that hated Trump, but would rather drink their own piss in perpetuity than not vote against Biden/Harris (and the switch in June/July made little difference to their rhetoric).

in another article on the interview here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitt-romney-makes-bold-prediction-154807486.html
and that they must change their policies accordingly. In other words, working class union members voted against their own economic interests.
He also suggests that there is a realignment of the parties going on with regards to who are their base.

I always say the last Republicans I had any respect for were those who left in the exodus after Trump got the nom in 2016 and became Dems or indies. The "anti-Trumpers" are such a stupidly small minority within the party they might as well not even fucking exist. They are completely powerless, utterly irrelevant, and the few who remain after 2020 are about to be ground into the finest of dust.

The very act of voting for a Republican after 2016--for any reason--is not moderate. Whatever excuses one might give themselves, you are enabling fascism. It's a completely anti-democratic party for people who don't believe in norms and do whatever the fuck they want once they're in office, with no accountability to anyone or anything.

if you really wanted to make a statement, Mitt, you should have switched parties. You're out the door anyway, nobody on that side likes you, and it would have been the only notable thing remembered about you, even your failed run for the Presidency, which is now a distant memory.

he needs to get the fuck out of the way and stop siding with the "republican" party. it hasn't existed for at least 10 years.

Didn't care for him when he ran for president. He absolutely refused to expose his taxes. I'll never forget it. Still don't like him. Glad to see him go. Nothing he said today will resonate with Chump. Or anyone else.