No, not a defense of trump thread
But there seems to be a sentiment growing among nevertrumpers that the the gop was in fine shape before trump and he came in and destroyed it. Obviously a bananas claim looking at election results in 2008,12,16
My worry is that the gop goes back to its just as unappealing platform it had before trump, unpopular in a different way from trump. Basically, the same people who controlled the party from 1996-2012 reassert their dominance
This platform will lose elections, but instead of looking in the mirror, they will blame trump over and over again with each loss. “He left a stench for decades”
In other words, they will use trump as an excuse/scapegoat for every loss
I think this is actually a likely scenario.
I don’t want this party to go back to worshipping at the altar of international free marketism as a cure for everything and being a fan of interventionism everywhere.
I totally agree with this, OP. I don't want the nevertrumpers back in power because they ran the party into the ground in the first place, and I want consequences for that.
They also love to harp about Trump's/Populist's demographics problem, but the party has had that problem for a long time before 2015 and they are unable or unwilling to see it. Plus, I agree with Trump's trade/foreign policy rhetoric far more anyways.
