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TomSlick

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7. If the GOP manages to kill itself, a new party will surely replace it.

Reply to thucythucy (Reply #6)

Fri Feb 12, 2021, 10:08 PM

Feb 2021

It seems likely to me that the replacement will be openly anti-democratic. If our democratic republic dies, it will because it votes itself out of existence.

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Stop trying to save the GOP. It's hopeless. [View all] struggle4progress Feb 2021 OP

K&R...nt Wounded Bear Feb 2021 #1

The Radical Republican Reich, formerly the Republican Party, consider democracy an obstacle. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #2

The problem is that we need an effective opposing party. TomSlick Feb 2021 #3

I don't think so JonLP24 Feb 2021 #4

Our political process is based on a two-party system. TomSlick Feb 2021 #5

The Republican Party did little or nothing while FDR was president thucythucy Feb 2021 #6

If the GOP manages to kill itself, a new party will surely replace it. TomSlick Feb 2021 #7

I'd rather put a stake in its heart. maxsolomon Feb 2021 #8