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How to Rebuild the Republican Party
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-to-rebuild-the-republican-party/503282/ ^

Posted on 12/02/2016 12:44:06 PM PST by outpostinmass2

Bravo for the forward-looking team at Commentary. Unburdened by illusion that Donald Trump can or will “turn this thing around,” they have proceeded straightaway to the next important conversation: What comes next for America’s battered Republican Party? Noah Rothman writes: “Reunification and a recapitulation of something resembling a national governing coalition must be the foremost priority.” That’s clearly true!

How to do it?

Rothman’s answer is to try to reconstitute conservatism as it used to be, refined by the famous “autopsy” of 2013. The problem is that pro-Trump Republicans may not agree that Trumpism failed. They may not be amenable to a reconciliation based on acknowledging that they, uniquely, were wrong—and that their defeated party opponents were in the right all along.

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To: outpostinmass2

Very kind of our better to help us in our hour of need


21 posted on 12/02/2016 2:27:12 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: outpostinmass2

Get rid of all RINOs


22 posted on 12/02/2016 3:02:10 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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