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No offense, but to expect that is to ignore what happened to the Republican party during the Obama Presidency. It imploded in a way that greatly enabled the far right, from tea parties to "gun nuts" to allowing yourself to be defined as the side on the "wrong" side of gay rights. Ted Cruz in particular is a PERFECT amalgamation of the extreme ideas that thrived during the last seven years, and how the party "establishment" has fallen to the point where they can't steer the wheel.

I absolutely agree. They've hitched themselves to the wrong wagons. I feel like Republicans could have gone much farther by banging on their own solutions to problems people give a shite about, like a rapidly-shrinking middle-class and aging infrastructure that Obama hasn't done a good job of fixing. Instead, they've allowed themselves to be a party largely revolving around xenophobia, Fox News soundbites, and shite-slinging. It's all based in fear. I'm willing to forgive some idiotic social policies as long as you give me solutions to problems that face me right this very moment, but ISIS, religion, and Mexicans aren't impeding me; my lack of buying-power, student loans, and rising rents are, and I'd like to think there are more than a few people in my situation.

Hell, they still may win, but only if Trump calms down. Even as a liberal who would never in a million years vote for any of the current GOP candidates, I can at least respect that he's not beholden to large donors like Hillary; he should be using that against absolutely everyone, and just knock it off with the racism. I don't have many other reasons to like him at all, though, and neither Cruz nor Rubio have a prayer against him. Rubio is too flaccid and Cruz is too fricking terrifying. This election was almost free to Repubs if they could get their shite together and not look like a clown show, but clearly that was too much to ask.

This post was edited on 2/22/16 at 8:49 pm