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Originally Posted by GirlySports
2. Without Trump, the Republicans could have coalesced around Jeb to knockout Cruz, sort of like how the Democrats all dropped out to back Biden over Bernie. They could do that to beat Cruz, but not to beat both Cruz and Trump.
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That kind of my point. There was Trump and mini-Trumps. The party was saturated with them.
I do think Trump accelerated things a lot, but the party had already been rotting and was fated to continue to rot.