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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 05:14 PM Oct 2016

Why the GOP Civil War Will Continue

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/07/why-the-gop-civil-war-will-continue/

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David Frum: “Unless their guy loses to Hillary Clinton in a 2008 style deluge, Trump backers will be much more likely to blame traitors inside the party for his defeat than their own bad judgment in supporting him…”

“Meanwhile, anti-Trump conservatives will be thrust back into exactly the position they held from 2013 to 2015: exponents of an ideology that does not command majority assent even within the Republican coalition, never mind the country as a whole.”


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