Not true.
What is a ‘reasonable’ Republican? Romney? Bush? Cheney? The dude that says we won’t take as much of your money and freedom as the democrats will? The Rhino that’s not quite as commie as the democrat? The shit head that says we must be reasonable and surrender our self-determination and wealth for the benefit of the non-citizen? Fuck no. That’s not what my friends died for.
Why do you think Trump single handedly crushed the Bush dynasty, derailed Cruz, stopped Rubio and ended Hillary‘s ambitions? People are tired of the swamp and want an outsider, that’s why they voted for Trump. It was not a fluke he won, it was because he finally gave people a true alternative. When Trump won it shocked the entire political system. The entrenched power in DC freaked out. Trust me, I saw it first hand. The entire Swamp and media turned on Trump because he dared to interrupt their scam and they began to fabricated shit to ruin him. If Perot would have got elected and if he truly would have bucked the system like Trump they would have done the same to him. Trump was smarter than Perot because he ran within the existing party structure, he understood you can’t split the parties and expect to win. Running in a third party is and will ALWAYS BE a fool’s errand. The socialist party understood this concept and gave up being a third party and co-opted the democrat party. If you look at what the democrats stand for now it’s what the socialists wanted 20-40 years ago. Co-opting an existing power structure is infinitely more efficient and effective than standing up a new power structure. That’s insurgency 101.
The people who say we must be ‘reasonable’ in our political expectations are suffering from a form of the Stockholm Syndrome and have been mentally beaten into submission. This is exactly what ’They’ want you to believe.
Every time someone says Republicans need to be ‘reasonable’ I think of this quote:
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
--Sam Adams
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