>>Making committed enemies out of people you will later need as allies is stupid, and is part of the reason for the 11th Commandment. So when Trump loses in November, he’ll have nobody to blame but himself.
The 11th Commandment was created in a time when a Republican and a Democrat were two very different critters. Today, we have Republican Progressives (social and economic Left) and Republican Globalists (social Right and economic Left) and Republican Nationalists (social and economic Right). The Progressives will never ally with the Nationalists. The Globalists will ally with the Nationalists for a brief period, but will stick with the Progs in the long run.
Trump has exposed this truth. Even if he loses, he has shown us that the Republican Party is an outdated and confused entity that does not represent the American working class.
Perhaps that was the purpose of the 11th Commandment all along: to keep the workers working while the GOP deal makers sold us out year after year. The goal of the 11th Commandment was to NEVER expose the true Party to the masses. They need to keep us focused on abortion (that will never be outlawed), gun control (that will never work), and welfare (that is the gateway drug for socialism).
Guess that means Reagan was a key part if the conspiracy too then....
Here's the problem you guys have - you have defined the "GOP-E" so broadly now that it essentially amounts to everyone except Trump. You have made enemies out of a majority of the electorate, which isn't exactly a recipe for winning elections.
Just remember this when the votes are counted in November if Trump is the nominee. You deliberately chose an "us against the world" strategy, and you'll reap the results.
This right here shows that you don't know what you are talking about. It was made in a time when Bob Dole was "the tax collector for the welfare state" and Reagan was saddled with the moderate GHW Bush to placate the big government Rockefeller Republicans, whose only difference with the Democrats was how communist they wanted the Western world to be. The GOPe has been around for almost three-quarters of a century. Reagan was a great president because he could rally the people (both conservatives, moderates, Republicans, blue-dog Democrats) behind his ideas and policies. He didn't write off anyone. It was the cause of a few of his mistakes, but also the vast majority of his successes...