Is The Republican Party Dead? (interview, campaign, legal, Democrats)
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Depends on whether Republicans can put aside differences and get behind Trump. If they can do so, win or lose, the GOP will come out of this election with some new direction and momentum, and may draw some badly needed new faces. We need somebody more appealing than Cruz to carry the GOP standard into the future.
Most likely, it will morph again. Both major parties have morphed several times, and neither of them today are anything like they were 145 years ago, when the Republican party was founded as a progressive party. The Republican party's ability to change itself regularly is one of the things that has kept it alive for so long.
Much more often, it's the Republican party that has changed course in the past, leaving the Democratic party to take up the slack the change left behind. That's how the Democratic party very gradually became progressive and left behind its old conservatism.
One election has often turned the course of both, but the times are the greatest agents of change in either. Whichever party is most attuned to our society at the moment usually changes the fastest. Politics is like nature; it does not allow a vacuum, especially in the center, where most of the voters are. Any movement too far to the left or to the right creates a vacuum the other party will fill.
I don't think it is the end of the Republican party, but I also don't think Trump is the future of the party. Trump has been birthed by the constant denigration of people's religious beliefs, intelligence, contributions to this country; the PC cancer of intolerance; the hate-filled rhetoric and vicious attacks on life and liberty by the progressives.
Why are progressives surprised by his popularity? Will he win? I don't know, but I will vote for him. I wouldn't even consider for a minute voting for him if Hillary wasn't his opponent. But, she is and this left wing madness must stop.
Last edited by texan2yankee; 07-18-2016 at 11:40 AM..
Is anyone watching the convention? The people are old, very old. Old white people.
Old white people vote, does that make you blindly hate them even more?
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