re: #54 Testy Toad T

I think we disagree only on semantics (the Dems would obviously move to the left as a whole if the more moderate members left). The GOP looks like it maybe offers a couple of glowing embers that might be able to try to rebuild some sort of something… at least in comparison to outright jokes like what passes for a US Green Party, anyway.

The point is, I am awfully leery of a functionally single-party state in the long term. As long as we have two decently strong parties that are fact- and logic-based in their views, without any outright bigotry or anything else that stands fundamentally at odds with what I consider to be democratic and American, I don’t give two yahoos what either one calls itself.

We’ll have to see what the rump GOP is. What’s the hard nut? Ryan’s Plutocratic Anarchists? Cruz’ Bible-Buggering Theocrats? Duke’s KKK Racists? Trump’s Anti-Trade Populists? Damn if I know.