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I agree Cruz & Trump seem to be the most conservative candidates to date.
IMHO the reason why Republicans / Conservatives are perceived as “eating their own” is due to their tendency to seek truth and have a long memory, which happens foster being critical.
Republicans devouring their own is nothing new and goes with the conservative critic ideology psychology.

On another note, has anyone mused about the political animal (exaggerated) traits ascribed to our party’s a century ago?
The Republican elephant is characterized as strong, highly intelligent, inclined toward herd and hierarchy, potentially clumsy destructiveness in stampede or stepping on things, very long memory, and are cartoonishly scared of little things. However, we now know little bad things often turn into Big Bad problems, ie Nat’l debt, adversaries, social and moral ills, bad policy, etc.

On the other hand, democrat donkeys have little admirable traits, other than being hard working beasts of burden.
Donkeys are not intelligent, don’t have a highly developed organizational structure, are super subborn, and their kicking fits cause great injury.

Today’s democrats should adopt a new animal mascot that better aligns with their role and contributions in today’s society. How about someone starting a graphic meme depicting democrats as parasitic ticks? After all the gimme-dat / gov’t worker folks are overwhelmingly democrats..