All they need is one or two "extremists" to run up the flagpole per cycle, and they get their way every time.
McCarthyism and HUAC did more to wreck the right, and move the bar far to the right than any commies ever could have imagined in their wildest dreams.
JFK would be a Republican today if he ran on the platform he ran on in 1960.
Republicans have moved left and there's no way they're going back to the middle or right after the last election. And Democrats have moved into some other place to the left of Marxism.
And which candidate is ever going to come along and take away entitlement programs? Nobody. Socialism is sinking the EU and it will sink us too.
"The 'right' now would be well left of the 'right' of the last generation, and would be tried for sedition 3 generations ago." In order to post that foolishness you must be unaware of the definition of "sedition".
There is only one party of treason and that is THE Party of Treason.