“No more Republicans until McConnell resigns.”...
Both my wife and I have stopped voting republican a long time ago. The rinos DO NOT represent our views. We will remain”independents” until the repubs actually become “conservatives” again and do what they get elected to do.
Reaganism was the aberration as far as Republicans are concerned, the Republican Party was far more liberal prior to that. They’ve spent all their time and effort since attempting to return to their roots, while hanging onto conservative votes via mere symbolism and window dressing.
The only reason Republicans have looked conservative other than the Reagan era is due to Democrats going full-on Marxist and chasing social conservatives out of the Democrat Party. Republicans hate social conservatives just as much as Democrats do. Any reputed social conservative elected to national office has been compromised in one way or the other and therefore controlled.
We have another anomaly in the Presidency, not such a strong social conservative but he cares about his constituency and does his best to represent our interests. He cannot be controlled and they revile him for that. Roy Moore I believe would have been the same, but he’s not withstood the onslaught of the politics of personal destruction as Trump has. He has a lifetime of refusing to play ball with the power elites, too. They couldn’t have that, threw everything they had and then some at him, and have won this round.
Was Moore the ideal candidate? Ideologically I have little reservation but have to admit that he worried me from the outset. I said all along if he could just run on supporting and furthering the objectives of the Trump administration he’d win in a cakewalk, if he could just stay out of the weeds and keep his mouth shut otherwise.
Guess he didn’t, or couldn’t given what he was confronted with.