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"When this is all over, Republicans are going to try to convince you the Trump thing was just a phase and Tom Cotton or whoever is a serious candidate. Don't believe them.

" The modern Republican Party (which is NOT the same entity as 'the Party of Lincoln') underwent an existential crisis after Goldwater's crippling defeat in 1964. They could have responded simply by adjusting their platform to meet America's needs. They didn't.

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"Though they have some common interests, the coalition is objectively absurd. If you were to explain to a Martian who Ayn Rand was, who Jesus Christ was, and that the American government worships both, you'd learn what the Martian for 'GTFO' is.

"The party has been gaslighting us for a long time. The contradictions seem to be a deliberate strategy. 'David Duke / Roy Moore / Donald Trump etc isn't who we are.' Until he needs to be to win Oklahoma or whatever. But the 'respectable' Republicans can distance themselves. [...]"

-- Maddy, the 66th Gender (maddsurgeon), 201
8-07-17