Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Hypothetical Question No. 1

After spending several hours watching the best and worst of Congress on MSNBC today, I've been contemplating this totally hypothetical situation:

Let's say it was actually possible to vaporize every Republican politician in the United States overnight, and conservative American voters in 50 states were forced to rebuild a political party for themselves from scratch, without identifying it as the Republican Party.

Given that scenario, these are the questions that crossed my mind:
  • How long would it take them to form a unified coalition?
  • Would the new conservative party look like the GOP under Eisenhower, or like the present GOP under Double Cheese Shitburger?
  • Is it possible the new party wouldn't resemble any version of the GOP we've seen since the Nixon years? Or is it more likely that the decay in conservatism is so complete that any new party organization would just be a replica of what we have now, probably worse?

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