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To: bentway who wrote (949054)	7/23/2016 11:41:51 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576309

That's the crisis they face. The Republican party has spent the past few decades changing from a more inclusive party that appealed to a large cross-section of the population to a one trick pony that demanded greater and greater purity. As a sideshow, they adopted the social wars to keep from being totally marginalized. That required some lip service but no real commitment. With Trump, they have shifted to a small slice of the social wars with a sideshow of being the unDemocrats. Before Roger Ailes left Fox News, I was dubious if this was enough to carry a national party. Now I am a lot more certain. I dunno if the rise of Trump was the factor in the ditching of Ailes, but it certainly didn't help. It was a business decision, to continue to be the news arm of that very much reduced Republican party would be a death spiral. But cutting the cord from the Republicans meant that the party lost their most important method of ensuring loyalty. Now this might work if the Democrats were some ideological monolith that defining yourself as "not them" actually meant something. But the Democrats aren't, at best, they can be defined as "the not crazy party" with no real ideology at all other than being "reality-based". Which doesn't give another party much to work with in defining themselves as being the alternative of. The Republicans already tried being the party of cranks after Roosevelt. As a result, they were the marginalized party until Buckley muscled them out and restored sanity. Going back to the crazy well is not going to serve them well.