snoiduspoitus
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Seriously. No shit. What happens?
I was always under the impression that we had a two party system. I'm not sure going forward.
Seriously. No shit. What happens?
I was always under the impression that we had a two party system. I'm not sure going forward.
Yea, I think that the republicans will split. I'm seeing about 2/3 of them remaining pissed that all the reps didn't rally around Trump. It will be a coalition of bitter white people and religious nuts.
The first thing they do is assign blame. After careful and detailed analysis, their objective and unbiased conclusion will be that it's because of those other guys. Those other guys will need to change but they themselves have been doing everything great and should continue as is.
In order to change, one must first acknowledge errors I can't see anyone in the GOP acknowledging any errors except those committed by other groups. They all feel that their wing of the Party hasn't been given its fair shot yet and the most important thing which can be done is to make sure that it wins the internecine struggle and gets everyone lined up behind them so that they can put forward a candidate to lose to Clinton in 2020.
No way they split - this election is the writing on the wall that nobody cares about small government conservatism.
You know, no regulations on multinational corporations except to stifle competition, voter suppression to shrink the number of voters, citizen deportation, no diversity in thought or religion, and guns are of course never to be regulated in anyway, except to protect the manufacturers!No way they split - this election is the writing on the wall that nobody cares about small government conservatism.
What is this small government conservatism I hear people talking about? No proposals coming from the GOP seem to reflect any reduction in the scope or role of government.
They still are powerful in the Red states. The party thus becomes a coalition of state parties vying for power among themselves for control of the party. So you will have tea party vs "mainstream" vs evangelical factions trying to play their strong state factions into becoming the arbiters of what the GOP stands for. Then looking for candidates that can make it on the national stage as leaders. This slow motion internecine warfare will take years to shake out. I don't see any real strong candidates to lead the GOP. Not Cruz, not Rand Paul, not Brownback or Ryan. There are no Reagans on the horizon. The GOP will want somebody whose force of personality will cut across factional lines, but I have no idea who might play that role. The GOP runs Texas, but there are no personalities here that can be a nationwide leader. No old retreads, Newt, Palin, the crazies can do it. Romney? Rubio? Huntsman?
“We’ve got to close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality,” he pleaded. “I’m not suggesting that we’re going to agree on everything, whether it’s on health care or energy or what have you, but if the way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives, what happens is you guys then don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me. I mean, the fact of the matter is, is that many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable in your own base, in your own party. You’ve given yourselves very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion because what you’ve been telling your constituents is, this guy is doing all kinds of crazy stuff that’s going to destroy America.”