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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The primaries are a problem, true, but I don't see how the GOP could survive without the religious loons and ideologues. If they abandoned the fringe, they'd just be a smaller version of the blue dog wing of the Democratic Party. What would distinguish them from fiscally conservative/socially liberal Democrats? Not much.
If you looked at Hillary v. Jeb, which was the race we thought we'd get in 2016, other than in regard to health care policy, what was the big difference? What was the difference between Dole and Clinton in 1996? Was there a massive difference between McCain and Obama or Romney and Obama other than McCain's neocon leanings?
The looming battle going forward is going to be between the Biden moderates and Progressives. Most folks aren't voting for Joe for revolution. They're just voting against Trump, and for sanity.
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No shortage of differences between Hillary and Jeb, just as there were no shortage of differences between Obama and Romney. Yet both mostly practice in the realm of reality. I think a Republican party that gave up the radical right haters would inevitably draw significantly more from the business community, likely moving the Dems left so we really had a center-right and a center-left party rather than having a center and left party and a radical right party. They'd still likely get votes from the haters, but they'd have enough balls to stand up to them.
