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goobster  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Bernie Sanders Already Won

    I'm saying "actual real life republicans (like your mom)" have either bailed or are in denial.

But. This is it. "Bailed to where?" and "With how many others?"

The histrionics and theater of the last 12 months only account for a tiny fraction of the people in the US that call themselves "Republicans", and the number of disenfranchised Republicans continues to grow every time Trump opens his big dumb mouth.

Ironically, Trump supporters have started to wave signs that say "Silent Majority", without apparent ironic intent.

They miss that when a firebrand political fringe last self-applied that moniker, it was a spectacular failure. The media bought their story hook, line, and sinker, and then when they called for "100,000 Moral Majority members" to come out to the Capital Mall in protest, I think 2500 people showed up.

The "Moral Majority" moniker became a huge liability, and they couldn't even pay for airtime after that.

So. Today, a bunch of asshats are dancing around like lunatics in the town square, claiming they have an army outside the city gates. But as soon as they open the gates, like Munchausen, they are gonna find the fields empty. Or, more likely, populated with a few radical nutballs dressed like walls, who the Republicans wouldn't even let inside their gated communities, much less sit down to caucus with.

So what happens to all the disenfranchised Republicans? Are you saying they just man up and become Hillary Democrats?