2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher says the primaries will destroy liberals. This is a poll on how you feel [View all]Bucky
(55,334 posts)I think Republicans are struggling with two core instincts: that of the herd and that of superiority. In the past, Reagan and the Bushlets have been able to synthesize those weltanschaungs. You seem to think their drive to be righter-than-thou all the time will drive them apart. My bet is that it's smarter to assume that their drive to conform to keep their "big daddy" du journ happy will ultimately pull them back together. I think they're crowd followers at heart, and if other big daddies say pinch your nose and vote for Trump, most of their herd will fall in line and walk up the shoot.
It's the status-quo-challenging instinct of the Dems that Maher is worried about. I think we'll unify in the long run, but a large number of DUers in this poll worry me.
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