The moderate Republican is functionally extinct. They've been stripped of party positions like Cheney, died like McCain, or retired to "spend more time with family". Romney might be the only one left?
Who do you think would really win the Republican nomination? Charlie Baker or DeSantis?
Neither Cheney or McCain, both stalwart if, in McCain’s case, quirky on some issues, conservatives. (Both rejected the Trump cult, but that's not inconsistent with being a dedicated conservative.)
Moderate Republicans (and Conservative Dems)[0] have been largely dead since the long post-WWII realignment settled out in the mid-1990s.
[0] Yes, this is asymmetrical; that's how systematic overrepresentation to one side of the spectrum combined with the incentive to nearly-balanced parties under the electoral system we have shakes out.
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The moderate Republican is functionally extinct. They've been stripped of party positions like Cheney, died like McCain, or retired to "spend more time with family". Romney might be the only one left?
Who do you think would really win the Republican nomination? Charlie Baker or DeSantis?
McCain was not moderate. He was a full-scale warmonger.
McCain sings bomb bomb Iran. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris
Neither Cheney or McCain, both stalwart if, in McCain’s case, quirky on some issues, conservatives. (Both rejected the Trump cult, but that's not inconsistent with being a dedicated conservative.)
Moderate Republicans (and Conservative Dems)[0] have been largely dead since the long post-WWII realignment settled out in the mid-1990s.
[0] Yes, this is asymmetrical; that's how systematic overrepresentation to one side of the spectrum combined with the incentive to nearly-balanced parties under the electoral system we have shakes out.