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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Wait... you think this is a positive thing about the Republican model that Democrats should emulate? This tendency leads to absolute nutbars being nominated, and then embraced and thereby legitimized by the party. If you were making a top five list of ways the USA got to this ####ed-up state, this would be on it. Am I just not getting what you're saying here?
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I think he's just stating it as a reason why Republicans are able to win elections right now, and not necessarily saying it's a good or bad thing.
It's an interesting topic. So far, it is the very socialist minded democrats that are the ones who won't get behind the moderate/centrist democrats. Some of their reason are self-sabotaging, but some of them legitimately believe that the establishment democrats are doing nothing for them, so they don't care to vote for them. And there are some who (probably foolishly) see hope in Trump's message.
I wonder what would happen if the reverse was true, and someone like Bernie Sanders won a nomination. The far-left voters would come out in force, but I would bet the more moderate voters would still vote for Sanders in say a Trump v Sanders election. I don't agree with a whole lot of Sanders proposals, but I don't think I would hesitate to vote for him against someone like Trump. They would surely lose some independents, but it may be a winning formula to assume that the moderate democrats will be on your side no matter what, and go with the further left candidate.