Have republicans only lost their minds in the Trump era?

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9. The Republican Party was deeply unpopular for destroying the economy and wars (as it was after

the Nixon administration scandals). Why more people began identifying as independents in the last couple years of the Bush administration, I think. Embarrassing to admit you're a Republican after such incompetence.

McCain was too nice and refused to go very negative against Obama besides calling him a celebrity, wasn't anti-immigration or anti-trade or anti-Muslim, not hateful and populist. At the time white people were about equality divided between the two parties. Any Democrat would've won that election because of the Depression-panic of the economy. Wasn't about the candidate.