I think what is really happening is that some people are flying off the handle by making assumptions about what is really going on and/or not fully understanding what is going on. Articles like this use a headline that is misleading and then don’t give a fully accurate account within the article.
FR has, in the past, been favorable towards closed primaries because, for example, it keeps registered democrats from voting for who should be the republican running in the general.
Do a little research Roos. Many states have Independent registrations double the size of Republicans and have long restrictions on changing affiliation.
Democrats will overwhelm the momentum that begins in the primary and outnumber us 3 : 1.
The more important point regards the delegate. If 5 million voters had chosen Ronald Reagan in California and the delegates were unbound to him and free to vote their own viewpoint, he wouldn’t have been number 40.
Elections Count! #StoptheSteal —Ted
Well, I’m for closed primaries. If people don’t belong to a party they have no say. Allowing anyone to vote is just more looney psychological societal engineering. Especially there should be no one allowed to change parties the same year as a primary. You don’t get to wreck the other party’s process.
But our country rewards losers and morons now. So expect it to get worse.