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03-09-2016, 01:37 AM
Does this mean that The Donald will stumble, get caught with a dead hooker or live boy, or otherwise crash and burn? Or does it mean that the Republican Party ignores the will of their base and selects an establishment figure as the contender... and that Trump still wins in a 3rd Party landslide and the Republican Party gets obliterated? Or is this all just mindless bloviating by Raw Story?
The Republican Party’s impending implosion — and its weird 52 year curse
The Republican Party was born in 1854, and won national power and the Presidency with the election of Abraham Lincoln just six years later, in 1860.
Fifty-two years later, after winning the Presidency all the time except two losses to Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892, the Republican Party was badly split with the third party Progressive (Bull Moose) candidacy of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, after he challenged his own successor, William Howard Taft, and failed to wrest the nomination of the party. The result was Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the Presidency in 1912, and squeaked by Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 for re-election. The progressive wing of the party, represented by TR, declined rapidly, and when the Republicans finally won back the Presidency in 1920, they elected President Warren G. Harding, generally regarded as the worst President of the 20th century, and quickly became the minority party in voter registration during the Great Depression under President Herbert Hoover, and failed to gain Presidential victories for the next half century until 1968, except for the popularity and victories of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The party has never since 1932 regained more registered voters in their party than the opposition Democrats.
Fifty-two years after 1912, the Republican Party split once again, over the candidacy of the most conservative nominee of the century, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, with many Republicans refusing to endorse him, and some actually backing the Democratic nominee, President Lyndon B. Johnson. The party was at its lowest point, with the worst popular voter percentage defeat in a two-way race in modern history. Four years later, due to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights laws under Lyndon B. Johnson, the Republicans won the Presidency in 1968, but had a President, Richard Nixon, who became engaged in criminal activity and faced impeachment, finally resigning from the Presidency in disgrace. Only when Ronald Reagan won in 1980, did the Republican Party feel it had reached its modern Renaissance.
And now fifty-two years later, in 2016, it looks as if the Republican Party is about to implode for a third time, with the growing likelihood of businessman Donald Trump being the party’s nominee for President, despite having a history of very different views from the conservative base of the modern Republican Party, and encouraging discontent that endangers the Republican establishment. There are already indications that...
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/the-republican-partys-impending-implosion-and-its-weird-52-year-curse/
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The Republican Party’s impending implosion — and its weird 52 year curse
The Republican Party was born in 1854, and won national power and the Presidency with the election of Abraham Lincoln just six years later, in 1860.
Fifty-two years later, after winning the Presidency all the time except two losses to Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892, the Republican Party was badly split with the third party Progressive (Bull Moose) candidacy of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, after he challenged his own successor, William Howard Taft, and failed to wrest the nomination of the party. The result was Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the Presidency in 1912, and squeaked by Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 for re-election. The progressive wing of the party, represented by TR, declined rapidly, and when the Republicans finally won back the Presidency in 1920, they elected President Warren G. Harding, generally regarded as the worst President of the 20th century, and quickly became the minority party in voter registration during the Great Depression under President Herbert Hoover, and failed to gain Presidential victories for the next half century until 1968, except for the popularity and victories of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The party has never since 1932 regained more registered voters in their party than the opposition Democrats.
Fifty-two years after 1912, the Republican Party split once again, over the candidacy of the most conservative nominee of the century, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, with many Republicans refusing to endorse him, and some actually backing the Democratic nominee, President Lyndon B. Johnson. The party was at its lowest point, with the worst popular voter percentage defeat in a two-way race in modern history. Four years later, due to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights laws under Lyndon B. Johnson, the Republicans won the Presidency in 1968, but had a President, Richard Nixon, who became engaged in criminal activity and faced impeachment, finally resigning from the Presidency in disgrace. Only when Ronald Reagan won in 1980, did the Republican Party feel it had reached its modern Renaissance.
And now fifty-two years later, in 2016, it looks as if the Republican Party is about to implode for a third time, with the growing likelihood of businessman Donald Trump being the party’s nominee for President, despite having a history of very different views from the conservative base of the modern Republican Party, and encouraging discontent that endangers the Republican establishment. There are already indications that...
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/the-republican-partys-impending-implosion-and-its-weird-52-year-curse/
My thread rules:
ad homs get TBs
evidence is nice
can't prove a neg.