re: #215 KGxvi

If the GOP faces losing three presidential elections in a row, they may end up moderating. That’s mostly what happened to the Democrats in the early 90s - they lost three in a row and that lead to groups like the DLC and Clinton talking about the era of big government being over. It also happened to the Republicans in 1950, they’d lost five in a row and nominated Eisenhower even though they’d been trending conservative since the Depression.

Trump may be the peak/nadir (depending on your perspective). Plus, look at potential 2020 candidates if Clinton wins. Who do they have that won’t be damaged goods?

The difference is that the Democrats have never been a very ideological party. The Republican party is; its got lots of very ideological stakeholders who will fight to the death to prevent the Party from moving to the center. Its basically going to take a generational change in which the GOP’s aging base dies off and is replaced by less racist young people for the GOP to recover its sanity.