Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[G.Irish]

I am amazed that of all the people who were in the Republican primary, Donald Trump is the one who made it. He is in no way qualified to be in a leadership role and I honestly hope I don't have any people in my life who I consider friends, who also consider him a viable person to lead a goddamn thing, let alone this country.

The GOP needs to reinvent themselves. Hopefully the Trumpster Fire is the motivation

Thing is, the smart people in the GOP realized after 2012 that the party needed to go in a different direction and expand their appeal if they wanted to win in the future. They recognized that demographic trends were only going to make it harder to win the presidency in the future.

Had the powers that be in the GOP had their choice, it would not have been Trump. Maybe it would've been Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio. But after using a lot of anti-establishment and dog whistle sentiment to rile up the base to win Congress back in 2010 and 2012, that base went on to nominate Donald Trump, who capitalized on those sentiments.

Don't know where the GOP goes from here. If the party splits from far right, they'll never hold onto either chamber of Congress. If they continue on this path, having to cater to the far right will probably make it difficult to win the White House.

Maybe in that environment the Libertarian party can get on the playing field in Congress, and actual start steering policy. Either way, I just hope there is some sort of sensible contrast in views so that we have a marketplace of ideas, rather than one party looking the govern from the left point of view, and the other being in disarray.