Getting really tired of these threats, overt and subtle, telling us that we have to vote for Trump or else. The Republican Party has gone full-on liberal with the nomination of Trump. It has been made plain to true conservatives that they are no longer welcome in the Republican Party. So all that will be left are liberals. I can't see this nation sustaining 2 liberal parties, so one of them will have to go. And that party will be Republican. This was the plan all along -- to kill the party by duping it into making Trump, a liberal, its nominee. And the fools in the party fell for it.
This is pretty Chicken Little-ish.
Trump's nomination did not show that the GOP was hostile to conservatives. It showed that a populist running alone in that lane could get a plurality of votes when the Establishment and conservative wings split the rest of the vote among a 16 candidate field. Bad luck, bad timing, call it what you will. Some gullible people being sucked in to support a guy out of frustration with a party establishment that didn't seem to listen on the issue of immigration.
There are Democrats who hated Bill Clinton because they saw him as too much of a centrist, and too willing to abandon some of the kookier left-wing ideals. But -- apart from those who went for Nader and threw the election to Dubya -- most of them ended up sticking with the Democratic Party over the long-term. And guess what? Eventually, they got their left-wing nominee and President in Obama (twice), and appear close to a three-peat with Hillary. All because the left didn't take their ball and go home just because they didn't like a particular nominee.
There is nobody praying harder for the fracture of the GOP than the Democrats, because they know that will be the only viable vehicle for a conservative challenger.
The truth is that conservatives are
not a majority in this country, and never have been. The only way to get a conservative as President is to have the right candidate, and build a
coalition that includes some non-conservatives. But if we take our ball, go home, and insist on a party that has rigid ideological purity, we have no chance of electing a conservative
ever.