"Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy."
-David Frum
Republicans: "Communists are a threat to our national security! We must publicly interrogate and badger and slander anyone who has ever had communist sympathies!"
Republicans: "These civil rights protesters and Black Panthers want to overthrow America with mob violence! We need more law and order, police batons and fire hoses and attack dogs!"
Republicans: "We don't negotiate with terrorists, we are going to bomb and smash and shoot anyone who even thinks about threatening us into submission."
Also Republicans: "You better appease my friends' unreasonable demands, we wouldn't want them to do anything crazy here."
I don't see the issue. If the Republican party dies conservatives will just flock to a new party. It doesn't happen very often in the US but such things have happened.
Republicans were too accepting of extremists in order to win short term gains. Now they're paying the price as moderates leave the party, making it even more extreme and unredeemable.
They embraced an authoritarian and just like every authoritarian he won't stand for criticism. Anyone that doesn't support the authoritarian is out.
If conservatives really want to have a political future they need to abandon the Republican party and make something new. Something that isn't extremist. The problem with making that happen is they're coming to find out that even their most fundamental beliefs--the things that make them conservatives--are what everyone else thinks of as extreme.
Yeah I always cringe at all the 'this is the end of the republican party' kiddies you see commenting on shit.
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