I consider those flippant remarks (not criticizing I make such remarks myself!).
But if any of you care to exposit that you tried the OP’s suggestion and had problems with it I’ll donate an extra ten bucks to Jim for your effort.
Listen, I live in Cook County, Illinois. The local GOP can never accomplish anything here because the Dems have rigged the game to make it impossible. Now the GOP nationwide is going to experience what that means first hand, because the Dems have implemented the exact same tactics nationwide and succeeded. The window when we might have stopped that by political means is closed, just like it’s been closed in Cook County for 89 years.
So history is “flippant”?
Rather, denial of same is what is flippant. It would be like people when the GOP first formed insisting that “we own” the Whig Party and to take it back over.