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If you're referring to this election specifically I actually envy the Republicans. Trump was able to cut through the party and rally a huge base basically by hi
by ng12 10y ago
If you're referring to this election specifically I actually envy the Republicans. Trump was able to cut through the party and rally a huge base basically by himself. Even if he loses it's an amazing opportunity for the party to reinvent itself.
Meanwhile the Dems double-down on the status quo year after year.
- CalChris 10y agoObama was the status quo? Bill Clinton was the status quo? Carter was the status quo? JFK was the status quo? How many times were Reagan and Nixon going to run before they got the nod? McCain? Romney? W's singular skill was being the son of a former President. Yeah, Hillary is running for Obama's third term. But otherwise Dems don't double down year after year. That'd be the Republicans. Trump's bull in a china shop approach doesn't change this.
- ng12 10y ago> Hillary is running for Obama's third term Yes. And I consider them both neocons as was the George W. administration. That's what I'm referring to as the status quo. As a lifelong democrat I'm very excited to see what happens to the GOP in the next few years. I don't expect the DNC to change in a significant way.
- barsonme 10y agoAs a lifelong Republican I'm not. It's going to be a bitter fight as the GOP either decides to shed its alt-right folk or embrace them and the GOP is going to come out rough either way. There's a definite divide between the moderate GOP and the new, hard right GOP that far surpasses the small, somewhat positive divide when the tea party movement came to be ca 2009.
- warlox 10y agoYou do realize that the alt-right, the KKK, and the Nazis stand for genocide, right?
- ng12 10y agoI'm not entirely convinced that the alt-right isn't a boogeyman. Not sure what the KKK or the Nazis have to do with anything.
- afterburner 10y agoTrump has courted the white supremacist vote. In fact, he was just officially endorsed by the KKK's official newspaper... his whopping 2nd newspaper endorsement!
- ng12 10y agoNot really interested in why the KKK supports Trump, very interested in why almost half of voters do.
- afterburner 10y agoThey might be related...
- mcv 10y agoWhy the KKK supports Trump is rather telling about what Trump stands for, as is the fact that he has retweeted numerous white supremacists. It's not exactly that it's a one-way street where he can't help that they vote for him; he likes them, courts, them, retweets them, and has never distanced himself from them.
- ng12 10y agohttp://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/kkk-paper-crusader-backs-trump-campaign-rejects-backing-n67668 http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/kkk-paper... His campaign immediately distanced themselves.
- mcv 10y agoTrump? Or his campaign? Some people in his campaign have a tendency of denying everything he says. If it's Trump, it would be a first. He tends to waffle around it and give non-answers, because he doesn't want to drop his allies, but doesn't want to be seen supporting either.