cville deac
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Current GOP is dead. Whatever's left will have to figure out how Obama got re-elected post Obamacare, how they ended up with Trump & Cruz as their final two, how they lost the Senate, and how someone as hated as HRC became POTUS. Not a lot of easy explanations.
I wouldn't say the GOP is dead, even though they will likely lose the presidency and the senate. They'll still have the House, more governors and I believe more state assemblies. And if you look at the 3 remaining candidates, all 3 still preach a conservative social agenda (though I'd acknowledge Drumpf is a faux social conservative). And 2 of the 3 remaining have a mostly fiscal conservative platform. But I do find it interesting that large numbers of Pubs are rejecting 2 things in this election cycle. First, 40+% appear to reject the donor class' fiscal conservative and free trade positions. Can it be explained solely by a fatal attraction to an authoritarian Drumpf personality cult, and his voters don't buy his economic message? I don't think so because that is his main message. So that could be a serious divide within the party down the road. Second, none of the 3 remaining candidates are neocons. Little Marco was the only real neocon in the race, and he couldn't win a single state. While Drumpf and Cruz aren't quite Rand Paul type isolationists, they do have a bit more of an "America First" streak and aren't necessarily looking for military responses to be our first responses. I see this election cycle as a clear rejection of the W/Cheney neocon foreign policy, and more than anything else this cycle, I find that to be encouraging.
And FWIW, I believe the Dem party also has some fissures developing. It wouldn't surprise me to see some party realignment over the next 5-10 years.