'Rebellion' in GOP could be mounting as Nobel Prize winner points out potential big split

A GOP rebellion could be brewing against Donald Trump, according to a Nobel Prize winner.

Paul Krugman believes there could be a push against Trump in the new year, with some non-MAGA Republicans facing off against "extreme corruption and bigotry" in the party. Writing in a post to his Substack, the award-winning economist believes there could be an "implosion" in the works for the MAGA faithful very soon.

"I don’t know what form their defection would take," Krugman wrote. "Would it involve a serious effort to wrest control of the G.O.P. back from extremists? Would it involve elected Republicans cooperating with Democrats?"

"Would it mean leaving the G.O.P. altogether?" the prize-winning economist continued. "America hasn’t seen a new major political party emerge since, well, the rise of the Republican Party in the 1850s, but this doesn’t mean it can never happen again. All I can say is that it’s unwise to assume that non-MAGA Republicans will remain docile indefinitely in the face of ever more extreme corruption and bigotry at the top of their party. And their rebellion can’t come soon enough."

"For the time being, election victories by Democrats are our only hope of saving American democracy," he added. "But in the longer run, we need two decent, sane political parties."

The possible rebellion could come over the renaming of The Heritage Foundation, which Krugman says had crossed lines that may challenge moderates in the Republican Party.

"It turns out that even at a fundamentally corrupt institution like Heritage there are lines you can’t cross," Krugman wrote. Suddenly, Heritage is experiencing a mass exodus of staff. In the latest wave of departures, more than a dozen staffers left to join an organization led by former Vice President Mike Pence."

"Heritage is, essentially, losing everyone who is even marginally competent or has any kind of reputation to protect. My guess is that there have long been many people at Heritage who were privately disgusted at what the organization had become. I never said they were stupid. But they lacked the courage to leave until they saw their colleagues jumping ship. Then there was a mass rush for the exit."