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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Oct 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Andrew Sullivan

    In 1964 Richard Hofstadter thought that the GOP's rightwing fever would break after Goldwater's trouncing. Subsequent Democrats hoped for moderation of GOP after Watergate, Iran/Contra, 1992 loss, 2008 loss and 2012 loss. It's a fantasy that refuses to die.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1314611108381110274 …

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    Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
    "A Biden landslide is the only thing that can possibly, finally break the fever that has destroyed the GOP as a legitimate right-of-center political party, and turned it into a paranoid, media-driven, fact-free festival of fear and animus." https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dreaming-of-a-landslide?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzE3OTgzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo3Nzk1MDUyLCJfIjoiN3IwbVoiLCJpYXQiOjE2MDIyNjIzODYsImV4cCI6MTYwMjI2NTk4NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.OKc2cjlbL4kYUkXz0SpVsoVi8cUOLbzO8R5k2zlHN3I …
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Oct 2020

        Rather than dreaming about some mythical return of moderate Republicans, liberals would be better off understanding that a bid chunk of America (say 30-35%) are revanchist right & another big chunk is willing to ally with revanchist right. That's the permanent reality.

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      1. Will‏ @IAmWillMarsh 11 Oct 2020
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        I swear, Lucy won’t pull that football away *this* time

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      2. The Italiano‏ @ExtremeItaliano 11 Oct 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        unlike those other examples though, do you think the GOP will be relegated to borderline-irrelevancy (like Democrats in 1980s) due to demographic changes if Biden wins?

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      1. BSH‏ @brooklynpsu 11 Oct 2020
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        The fever won’t break if you can retake power two years later. If you’re looking a generation in the woods, then perhaps you reevaluate.

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      2. Shashank Nayak  🏗‏ @ShazCoder 11 Oct 2020

        On state level - Maryland, Mss and Vermont they had some success. But on national level yes the strategy of appealing to base has worked well from Reagan to Bush to Trump.

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      2. SteelRambles‏ @coqui_ranch 11 Oct 2020
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        In my memory (I’m 40-something) they have always been the home to bigotry and anti-intellectualism. They just keep marching down that path. I kinda doubt they would ever fully ban abortion because then 1-issue voters might move on.

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      3. Nick Lindare‏ @dropgop86 11 Oct 2020
        Replying to @coqui_ranch @HeerJeet

        Indeed. The MSM plays into this via bothsidesism. The RW media provides the alternate reality where wingers never really lost, but were cheated. My Maga family members still believe everything is the libs fault and Trump is doing a fine job.

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      2. William Earl Burns‏ @williameburns13 11 Oct 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Nixon was moderate compared to Goldwater.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Oct 2020
        Replying to @williameburns13

        His vice-president was Agnew and his team included Buchanan. Nixon helped integrate revanchist right into GOP.

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