Trump is just the latest worst, but imagine what the GOP would come up with next. The alternative is they get so punished in the next couple of years that the reasonable conservatives split off and bury them forever - hey I can dream
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There aren't enough "reasonable" conservatives to let that happen. Trump reflects the desires of conservative voters moreso than predecessors, which is to say naked racism, unilateralism, and rugged individualism. The old party establishment still acted as a counterweight.
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and Frum's role as wheel-greaser (or your lube-metaphor of choice) extraordinare
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Continuity camp for sure.
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It began with Nixon. It's been a collapse into nativist white isolationism since then.
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If you mean having useful idiots as presidents that the GOP and donors can manipulate, this certainly has gone on from Reagan. Nixon was the last of the evil smart GOP presidents. Likely the party learned to have a more charismatic face on same tactics A.N.
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Powerful: It is naive to think that a president who is openly contemptuous of equality can be a reliable manager of democratic institutions.
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