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goobster  ·  2928 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Bernie Sanders Already Won

And that's my point. The Republican party, as it exists today, will not exist in 12 months. The Tea Party fragmentation was nothing like what they are gonna see when they lose to Hillary. The rats are already leaving the sinking ship, but they get to either run into the arms of David Duke, or... umm... Clinton? She's the most centrist Republican out there nowadays. The Tea Party is a joke, even amongst the Tea Partiers that got elected! That's over, and an embarrassing past that they will soon forget.

(And shit.... I'm old. Christine Whitman was my go-to "reasonable Republican" mannequin because of that amazing response she gave to the State of the Union speech... in, um... lemme check... oh fuck... 1995!! Ok. Point taken. Gotta retract that example and find another rational, reasonable, old school small-c conservative Republican to trot out...)

But, more to the point, in 2020 the remainder of the Republican party that can still manage to put its pants on, and not slobber too badly down the front of their power ties, will win against Hillary because her presidency is going to be a fucking disaster. Because she doesn't actually believe in anything. She just follows whatever the latest talking point is. And that's not leadership. That's the Secretary of State role, not the President.

So. She fails spectacularly to do anything of any substance at all.

So the Republicans prop up any ole idiot in 2020, and clear her out of office.

And then, that's when the dissolution of the Republican party starts to congeal around a truly, classically-defined "conservative" viewpoint. They get out of people's bedrooms. They get out of funding overseas crusades. They focus on infrastructure. They tell the religious right to go fuck themselves. They create comprehensive programs to help TWO GENERATIONS of veterans injured in the Middle East, and make them feel welcome and prosperous in their own country again.

THAT's the "conservatism" that could come out of the total dissolution of the Republican party that's coming in about 50 weeks.