What I love about Trump is that he is a mechanism by which all of the masks in DC, the masks of all the political pundits and radio talkers, and all the so-called conservative leaders are finally being made to drop, so we can see where they really stand.
A third party may be forged from the GOP, but it won’t be on so-called “conservative” principles.
Trump was actually more conservative in his positions than any of the other 16 candidates that ran against him, and the people saw that and responded with their votes.
Trump is like an anvil, and the others are tools being forced to take a shape they don’t like and don’t really believe in.
In that vein, you are absolutely correct, the GOP has to split—it always was split since GHW Bush, and now the split has been exposed.
And the split was not between factions—it was between the GOP establishment and power brokers and the people they purported to serve.
That was the toughest mask to rip off, but Trump has done that.
Yep. Before, it was always lesser of two evils, and the GOP side was making excuses (or lying) for not implementing what it claimed to stand for. The "uniparty" label was pretty accurate, and certainly some members of the GOP will be more comfortable, for various reasons, trying to make their way in the DEM party.
-- Trump was actually more conservative in his positions than any of the other 16 candidates that ran against him ... --
That label, "conservative," is used to mislead people. It has too many different meanings. I saw a post, probably on another thread, that said something to the effect of "I didn't know that conservative meant to be in favor of engaging in foreign wars."
I like the realignment that Trump has put in play. America vs, the globalists who see America as a resource, not as a nation. The business analogy works. Romney got wealthy by buying existing healthy companies, milking them and breaking them up. That's the globalist way, poach the fruits of other people's hard work. In contrast, Trump is a builder and creator, from the ground up. Take some resources, hard work, and make something better.
“Trump was actually more conservative in his positions than any of the other 16 candidates that ran against him,....”
I have posted many times that the Trump platform, taken in totality, is to the right of Ronald Reagan. I worked for Reagan too.