Republican senator: 'I’m out’ if GOP becomes party of David Duke, Donald Trump

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62. Bingo! Never get in the way of the opposition self-destructing by fanning the flames of your own . .

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destruction. But that's exactly what we're doing here.

We're yelling, "Hey, look at us, look at us, we're spitting too. Hey, over here, look at us."

God people, give it a rest. We've seen that movie already — the pumas in '08, and btw, in '64 when the dixiecrats left (thank God) — and the party survived both insurgencies.

IMO we should not be fanning these flames when the repugs are falling apart and SCOTUS nominations that will shift the liberal v conservative balance of that court to the left or right for the next 30-40 years loom large. That is not progressive or smart.

By all means start a party of the left, I mean really do it, not just be a keyboard warrior hurling invective towards the only stop-gap we have to a repug party that wants to return us to the Jim crow-anti-woman-anti-gay-anti-safety net-anti-everything 1950s, maybe even the 1850s. Perhaps it will lead to a move away from what we have and towards a parliamentary system of more than two choices.

But hey, let's be smart about it and I will even work for it too as my progressive/left bona fides are strong. I will not however, participate in any short-sighted movement that will help the repugs win the White House and make the upcoming SCOTUS appointments.

Look at the Green Party, they've been around forever and still can make any real traction other than running a no-chance candidate for president every four years. And I'm saying that to say, it takes hard work time, not just during the presidential, to build a visible, viable party structure that has a network of workers and funding to field a full slate of candidates with real backing for president, Senate, House, governors, state reps, county and local reps, etc. It takes time so why keep hyping this imagined dem party split at this time before the crucial November election?