(August 3, 2016 at 11:51 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yeah, I think we're witnessing the fracture of the Republicans into a couple of parties. They've always had the tension between Wall Street Republicans and Bible beaters, but with the rise of the Tea Partiers -- and Trump's snatching them -- I think we're going to see the party survive, but much smaller and weaker.
It seems to me that the Wall Street Republicans have a couple of options if the GOP breaks apart: they could go Libertarian (not a bad fit, really, since it doesn't seem that they are on board with the social conservative agenda except to secure needed votes) or they could be absorbed into the Democratic party, at least so long as the party resists being pulled leftward by the progressives.
But where does that leave the social conservatives and Tea Party people? Are they what the GOP effectively becomes? If so, they will cease to be a force in Presidential elections, but they may continue to wield disproportionate influence in certain state legislatures and in the federal House and Senate seats representing such states. Somehow, I find this even more disturbing.
