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Professor, author of "Our Own Worst Enemy." Curmudgeon. Cat guy. Democracy enthusiast. Board of Contributors, @USAToday, Contributing Writer, @TheAtlantic.

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    1. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 20 Jun 2018

      I am torn. My heart is where @SteveSchmidtSES is right now, along with @MaxBoot, @GeorgeWill and others who've quit the GOP. But my instinct is still where @BillKristol is: that the GOP cannot be abandoned to the crazies and it's not yet irredeemable from this current plague. /1

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    2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 20 Jun 2018

      As a practical matter, quitting the party means that the only Republicans left will inherit the infrastructure of the only center-right party in America. It means basically giving up on what a conservative party was until a lifelong NYC Democrat hijacked it. /2

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      Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 20 Jun 2018

      It also means accepting that the rubes who came out of the woodwork to give Trump a 70,000 vote margin against a truly hapless Democratic candidate can just gain in a year what it took better Republicans 40 years to build. I'm not good with that. /3

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 20 Jun 2018

          On the other hand, the Republicans who have been in Congress for years, along with GOPers from Reagan's time, have sold their souls. They can't get them back. I'm not sure who'll be left to rebuild once Trump leaves a the party as the equivalent of a trashed hotel room. /4

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        3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 20 Jun 2018

          So I'm waiting for November to see if there's any chance of a recovery of the GOP. And Dems? Telling me I have to leave doesn't mean anything coming from you. That's always been your message. I tuned you out on that 35 years ago. Let it go. /5x

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        2. Jabberwocky‏ @JbberWcky 20 Jun 2018
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom

          perhaps the Democrats need some tempering forces against their own far left progressives

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        3. Patrick Bridges‏ @pgbridges 20 Jun 2018
          Replying to @JbberWcky @RadioFreeTom

          Damn straight we do.

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        1. lisa‏ @LisainNJ 20 Jun 2018
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom

          Truly the party started falling apart with McConnell during the Obama years. Now it’s just disintegrated and will take everyone who hangs on down with them. What side of history do you want to be on?

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        1. Smirnoff and Sprite‏ @smirnoff_sprite 20 Jun 2018
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          You yourself warned that Trump was a terminal disease for the Republican Party.

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        1. Captain Tako‏ @CaptainTako 20 Jun 2018
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom

          With respect, the rubes have been at it since 2008; a full decade with little internal resistance.

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        1. H Incandenza‏ @BurkeThos 20 Jun 2018
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          You'll have to start over, the twitching of that phantom limb will subside in time.

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        2. Hypatia/Cassandra 2020‏ @timfblogger 20 Jun 2018
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom

          The GOP base wants Trump and everything he stands for. Everything. It would be a hundred times wasier for folks like you to mold the Democratic party in a direction that satisfies you (which I’d hate) than pry the GOP away from Trumpists and Fox.

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        3. Hypatia/Cassandra 2020‏ @timfblogger 20 Jun 2018
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          ...easier...

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