I don't have time for false sympathy over the "end" of the traditional Republican Party. Ten years ago, Democrats would have cheered on the institutional destruction of the Romney/Cruz/Ryan conservative GOP. I won't take y'all pretending to pine for it now for nakedly partisan reasons.
The idea of a "traditional" or "sane" Republican is a fake unicorn invented by D hacks so they can constantly move the goalposts and paint every GOP nominee as somehow worse than the last. In only 10-20 years, y'all will be begging to have Trump back LOL
It's not moving the goal posts if the circumstances actually change. You guys keep nominating worse and worse candidates every cycle!
You guys acted like Romney was worse than W lol
Maybe people on Atlas did, but I don't think it was a widespread belief at all among Democratic voters in 2008 or 2012 that McCain and Romney were worse than W.
I was still an independent at the time, but I for one didn't feel they were worse. In 2008 I was waffling between Obama and McCain until the latter chose Palin as his running mate, which was a dealbreaker for me. I voted for Obama again in 2012, but thought Romney was a decent guy and the country would be fine if he won. I always thought W was significantly worse than either of them.
