Are liberal or moderate Republicans a thing? Do they exist?

[IluvPitties]

I used to think they did. In fact, I would like to think there is an argument to be made that some Never Trumpers can be brought into the Democratic Party, as their beliefs probably align more with us than with Trumpism. I want to believe that certain Libertarian types might also realize that the Democratic Party believes both in social justice and individual freedom apart of fiscal responsibility. I would like to believe there are millions of Americans that understand the grave circumstances that we are facing, and that the GOP is a neofascist organization that is killing America.

I mean, I believe there is our blue America, and a purple America still worth working with and fighting for. Red America is a fringe element we can't reach.

Am I just plain wrong and stupid for thinking this way? Do I need a break from politics? Am I on the right track?

I just know I am afraid.

[democratisphere]

1. redumbliCONS are lemmings and will do whatever their leaders tell them to do.

Regardless of where an individual redumbliCON sits on the moderate to alt-right scale, they will always fall in line in the end.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Sure they do. You just don't hear much from them.

[BeckyDem]

3. Not really. I try to be fair so I would say look at their indivdual votes.

Its the only way to see if there is something human there, some principle there. Like with the Yemen war, there are some who are against it.

[Meadowoak]

4. I think they are all dead!

[BeckyDem]

11. lol +1

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Moderates when their electoral butts are on the line

ala Pat Toomey.

[StatGirl]

6. Yes, but they have a new name.

"Business-friendly Democrats".

[NurseJackie]

7. Not as politicians. Only as random citizens... occasionally.

[davekriss]

8. No, that's oxymoronic

Republicans today are radical right warriors of our monied elites, protecting and advancing the interests of the latter. To them, nothing else matters.

There’s nothing “liberal” or “moderate” in any of them. Dante has a special place in hell for all of them.

[BeckyDem]

9. Here ya go. lol

The Only Republican Opposing Brett Kavanaugh

Representative Justin Amash is the sole member of Congress who's come out against the Supreme Court nominee, citing his record on privacy. Can he get Senator Rand Paul to join him?

July 2018

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/kavanaugh-supreme-court-rand-paul-justin-amash/565418/

[FakeNoose]

10. All the "normal" Repukes were primaried by the RWNJs

We Dems kind of laughed when it happened between 2008 and 2016, but now look where we are.

[JHB]

12. As individuals? Surely some, if for no other reason than...

...statistics and inertia.

As a political faction of the Republicans? Nope, not anymore. In the 70s and 80s conservatives made a concerted effort to drive Rockefeller Republicans and others they considered quislings out of elected office and oust them from state and local party apparatus.

They wanted to make the Republican Party into a "conservative safe space", and were successful.

And ever since, they've pushed it farther and farther right, since they already established the practice of punishing anyone deemed insufficiently conservative.

[0rganism]

13. hunted to extinction, i fear

any who remain are in isolated pockets well-insulated from the right wing hoax machine. perhaps in Amissh country.