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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Thu Oct 3, 2013, 01:13 PM Oct 2013

Does the Republican party exist at this point?

No, seriously.

I'm kind of a history nerd. Is there still a Republican party in any real, historical, poli sci sense as an ideological pole? Party mechanisms have lived on past their actual political usefulness before.

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Does the Republican party exist at this point? (Original Post) Recursion Oct 2013 OP

I don't think they can recover from this. randome Oct 2013 #1

Yes it does. But it is a right wing radical anarchist party.... Agnosticsherbet Oct 2013 #2

randome

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1. I don't think they can recover from this.

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Thu Oct 3, 2013, 01:18 PM

Oct 2013

From the Tea Baggers in their midst. From the enormously self-destructive plays for power. From falling so far from their Reagan/Bush heyday.

Of course they will be the pebble in everyone's shoe for quite a while but historically I think they're done.
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Agnosticsherbet

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2. Yes it does. But it is a right wing radical anarchist party....

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Thu Oct 3, 2013, 01:21 PM

Oct 2013

not a conservative party ala William F. Buckley Jr. or even Ronald Reagan.

Parties change over time. The Democrats used to be a Southern Party often associated with racist attitudes. That is now the Republican party.

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