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Those who have tried to abandon the fringe are called Never Trumpers. If you run in a GOP primary and try to appeal to the center, you lose.
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You'll hear no dispute on this from me. The party is hijacked by a pack of lunatics at the primary level. But it also cannot jettison them because it needs numbers they provide. No good option.
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The Republican Party gave you the invasion of Iraq and the 2007 financial crisis. Granted, it had some help with the latter. But let's pretend the only difference was the invasion of Iraq. Aside from the biggest foreign-policy blunder of the century, one that has costs billions and billions of dollars and many, many lives, what's the difference?
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There was a difference between Gore and Bush II. I didn't omit that comparison by happenstance. But my point was that in most races since Reagan, after which the Democratic Party adopted the same neoliberal stance as the GOP, the differences were minimal.
