re: #63 goddamnedfrank

Except the post Goldwater era was one still heavily dominated at the national level by white voters. That’s why Nixon and Reagan were able to deploy the Southern Strategy to electoral success. That electoral landscape is changing fast now, and by nominating, supporting and endorsing Trump they’ve tied themselves to the kind of intrinsically alienating figure that future moderate, liberal and minority voters aren’t likely to soon forget or forgive.

And, oddly enough, the most damaging thing that could happen to the GOP would be a Trump Presidency. Inasmuch as he would go down in history as the WORST PRESIDENT EVER, far surpassing Nixon, Calvin Coolidge or Andrew Jackson, he would damage the GOP brand for generations.

But I would not want to see America subject to that, even if it would really schlong the GOP