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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRepublican Party had not just a political crisis but a moral crisis,” Wehner explained.
Conservative says GOPs obsession with monstrous crazies like Trump and Palin is an illnessWhile Wehner expects Trump will lose, hes most concerned about the impending fight the GOP will have about their future. One of the questions, is this an anomaly or a trajectory. As you were asking earlier, Willie [Geist], how much of this is Trump and how much is the phenomenon we call Trumpism? I think, theres no question that if and when Trump leaves the scene, thats going to make things better. But will he leave the scene or become a political irritant and will Trumpism continue and how does the Republican Party rid itself of it?
He goes on to say that the plague of the right-wing and religious right is like a fever that the GOP has and was further exacerbated by people like Sarah Palin.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/conservative-says-gops-obsession-with-monstrous-crazies-like-trump-and-palin-is-an-illness/
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Republican Party had not just a political crisis but a moral crisis,” Wehner explained. (Original Post)
UCmeNdc
Oct 2016
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vlyons
(10,252 posts)1. a question of morality
Could not agree more. The Republican party has lost its moral compass. If they don't wake up and start working for the benefit of all Americans, rather than their own greedy selfish interests, it will be a long long time before they regain the white house - if ever again.
randome
(34,845 posts)2. "Where there's one mutant (Palin), there's another (Trump) and another (?), a whole nest of them."
Apologies to Dr. Zaius but the point holds, I think: they didn't learn their lesson from Palin and they don't seem to be learning from Trump so it's open season on the GOP admitting any and all bogus candidacies in the foreseeable future.
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Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)3. A conservative who understands what is happening to the GOP....
Republicans had better pay attention to this guy, or they are done as a Party.
radical noodle
(8,014 posts)4. Even Goldwater tried to tell them
the Religious Right was crazy.