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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it was just Republican policy as usual, Mitt Romney would not have been given the cold shoulder he was. I think the most you can claim is that it was the natural progression of where the party was heading to, which I don't disagree with. I'll just mark it as the latter, then, since outcries for ranked voting and more pluralistic forms of European parliamentary representation are even rarer than Bernie supporters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mitt Romney was given the cold shoulder for losing. Trump's policies are a direct continuation of Bush's policies except for the Muslim ban (but I'd argue starting two wars in the Middle East is worse).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mitt Romney was given the cold shoulder for losing.

You mean like Trump has been?

Yeah, not going to get all Nazi grammar about perceived distinctions between saying "natural progression" and "direct continuation". If you don't want to see it even though several major journals have reported on the divisions within Republican ranks that led to the current state, then I'm certainly not going to make you see it.