Conservative Says Republican Donors Are Starting To Have Buyer's Remorse

The Republican Party of today is only able to exist because of their millionaire and billionaire backers - but that could all be changing very soon. According to conservative commentator Charlie Sykes, these big money Republican donors are starting to feel "buyer's remorse" over what has happened to the Party that they've been propping up for decades. If that money leaves, it will be nearly impossible for Republicans to win meaningful races again, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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This week, conservative commentator, Charlie Sykes wrote a piece for MSN bbc. So he is kind of an MSNBC conservative, which isn't like a hardcore MAGA freak, it's just, you know, regular, traditional classical, I guess you would call them conservatives. But he wrote a piece for MSNBC where he suggested that Republican billionaire donors might be experiencing a bit of buyer's remorse. And he uses the recent examples of Peter Thiel, of Ken Griffin, um, of Thomas Pet, all big Republican donors who have basically said, you know what? I'm done with pretty much all of you. Even the Koch brother, I, I'll never get not used to saying Koch brothers, but Koch brother has said like, they may not be putting money into uh, races this coming year. Now that's a lie. They're totally gonna do that. But they have suggested that maybe they're done with politics. But what's happening right now is these Republican donors have gotten everything they wanted.

They've gotten regulations cut, they've gotten their taxes cut, they've been given free reign and subsidies. They've been given everything they could possibly want. That is what their money over the last few decades has bought them. I can do whatever I want because I've paid off everybody in dc but now they're starting to see the other side of that. And the other side of it, of course, is terrifying because the other side of that is now we've got these culture wars. Now we've got these Republican politicians out there targeting already vulnerable portions of the population, and they're doing it with my money. And believe it or not, some of these millionaires and billionaires that control the Republican party are looking at that and they're saying, I can't be a part of that. Like, I can't spend my money to have you attack these human beings. I just wanted to attack them with pollution that would give them cancer in 20 years.

I don't want them to be targeted with your legislation. Do. Do you see what I'm pointing out here? Like these are evil sobs, most of them, not necessarily the ones I named, but the rest of the Republican party. Like they're evil. These billionaires are horrible human beings and they, you know, kill people with their toxins and they're industries and they don't care about that. But now they're like, y'all have gone too far. Like, I'm okay with giving people cancer. I'm okay with dumping toxic chemicals in their backyard. Quite literally. But you guys are just terrible. You're evil like. I don't even know how you square that in your brain, but that's the point that these evil billionaires are at. Like, we don't wanna be with you because you're too evil. You know,

We're sneaky evil. You're overtly evil. So they are starting to have buyer's remorse. Question is, how does the Republican party survive without money from millionaires and billionaires? So as far as I've seen, it can't. It absolutely cannot and will not survive if it does not have the money from those millionaires and billionaires. Majority of people in this country, believe it or not, when they're pulled on the issues, are very progressive. Democrats win popular votes. The only reason Republicans exist today is cuz they're propped up by millionaire, billionaire money and gerrymandering.