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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I would describe the Republican coalition as follows:

The old Eastern moderates, like Rockefeller.

The western libertarians, like Goldwater.

The southern religious conservatives, like Jesse Helms.

The strong defense internationalists, like Cheney.

The intellectual fusionists conservatives/libertarians, like William Buckley.

Some movement exists back and forth between the groups and some belong to more than one group.


72 posted on 01/09/2016 2:31:05 PM PST by Oklahoma
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To: Oklahoma

Those are the “old money” groups. There are some “new money” groups. I would add to the old group Pat Buchanan conservatives.

The further away we get from “the day” of the “old money” groups, the more they mutate into something else. You can trace their history back, but they don’t look much like their forefather.

Combining our groups:

Establishment: Rockefeller, Cheney
Trump: Buchanan, mutated Goldwater, Angry untitled group, Revolutionaries as described below
Constitutional Conservatives: Buckley, Helms, Goldwater

Within those, I would add some “new money” groups.

Within the overall, I would add a faction of spies and revolutionaries out to destroy or at least fundamentally alter the party. They set up phony “Republican” groups with a liberal title (Log Cabin Republicans, etc.).

“Old money” “New money” could be “old mint” “new mint.” Just a borrowed term to convey an idea.


79 posted on 01/09/2016 2:56:04 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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