Enzo wrote:U am actually thinking a third party could form. Trump took over the republicans, with his MAGA hat brownshirts, but there are thousands of people who have left the party, the Lincoln Project types, who still have basic conservative values. I can see them forming a new conservative party and leaving the Trump idiots to wither on the vine.
Arneb wrote:I've always thought there might be a market for that in America, you know, free market, small state, free trade, socially conservative, but basically rational and - what was Dubya's slogan again - compassionate. But if Donald Trump turns out record numbers of voters against a candidate who hasn't eaten a conservative in four decades in the Senate, I'm doubting it. There must be 60 million people out there who voted and actuall think the election was rigged. Everything's uphill against that kind of wilfull ignorance.
Arneb wrote:When I roamed the Southern Idaho prairie, they at least had CNN radio. And it nothing, NOTHING but the firing of Steve Bannon.
Arneb wrote:It is ofthen said that the electorate isn't as dogmatic as the Party
Мастер wrote:I don’t know whether you experienced this on your eclipse trip or perhaps on another occasion, but when you drive through rural western US, and turn the car radio on, there’s not much there, and what is there is, well, “interesting”. On such a trip, I’ve heard some of the radio people rip into the insufficiently Republican RINO Arnold Schwarzenegger. One of Ronald Reagan’s sons was (and maybe still is) a conservative radio talk host, and I expect he would be absolutely brutal with anyone who espoused policies similar to his father’s today - I think RR would also be a RINO these days.
MM_Dandy wrote:I'm not 100% sure of the numbers, but I'd say at least 75% of the terrestrial radio stations are either country music or conservative talk radio. The rest is made up of oldies and contemporary rock/pop, NPR, sports-talk, and a handful of university-run stations, which are poorly produced but are usually less contentious and have better music.
MM_Dandy wrote:The Democratic party didn't even run a candidate (Well, I think it tried to, but due to utter chaos and apathy, there was no primary held for the office).
Enzo wrote:Well now he has brewed up an armed insurrection. MAGA hats have stormed the Capitol, they got inside. COngress was spirited away. They can conduct business elsewhere. Washington had tons of underground facilities. A woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol and teargas was deployed inside, as well as outside.
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