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[–] ShinyVoater ago
Somebody is clearly a Berniebot; there's no other reason to write off the effects of his nomination on the party like that and the refusal to acknowledge the increasing liberalization of gun rights would seem to indicate the requisite blindness to the actual will of the American people
As much as the Republican Party's existence is on the line, it's got nothing to do with being full of old codgers who refuse to accept change and everything to do with the people getting angry at the ruling elites. The perception that it's gone farther right than the Democratic Party's gone left is almost entirely based on the sudden emergence of the Tea Party and now Donald Trump driving the rightward drift and the lack of such events driving the leftward drift; the Establishment Party tends to lean left as well, so the disparate means was pretty much inevitable.