re: #29 recusancy

We would have been so much better off with that version of the GOP. A GOP with muslims and Hispanics— both groups that are quite conservative in many ways— would, I think, have to be open and inclusive enough to be a party of sane, compromise conservatism. They’d have sidelined the Birchers and the nativists, and would probably cut into the Democrats by doing so. The need to compromise between Catholic and Protestant alone would produce much saner aspects on separation of church and state. Having a large number of immigrants who actually understand the issue would lead to a saner immigration policy.

They’d probably be quite successful and our country would be significantly more ‘conservative’ than I’d like in some ways, but I think that it would be so much better than today.