Saturday, July 7, 2018

VDare - Patrick J. Buchanan: The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back [into power]



Historicfail


With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated.
The Republican Party of Bush I and II, of Bob Dole and John McCain, is history. It's not coming back. Unlike the Bourbons after the Revolution and the Terror, after Napoleon and the Empire, no restoration is in the cards.
It is over. The GOP's policies of recent decades—the New World Order of George H.W. Bush, the crusades for democracy of Bush II—failed, and are seen as having failed. With Trump's capture of the party they were repudiated.
There will be no turning back.
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