(11-13-2022, 12:49 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-13-2022, 12:35 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: So, the Republicans have lost badly three elections in a row going back to 2018. At what point does introspection and change come?

Anyone under the illusion that people who have put the Dems in charge three elections in a row are going to suddenly have a change of heart and embrace authoritarianism would be better off waking up sooner.

I've posted a few times here about the current problems with the Republican party from the perspective of someone that also has a lesser distaste for the Democrats, and usually had my salient thoughts met with hostility and derision. I'd say if the Republicans want to win elections any time soon they should probably start doing the hard work of cutting out the cancer pervades the party sooner rather than later. Democratic policy positions are actually much more popular than Republican ones, and that won't change without Republicans changing their positions to take on some of the ones that the Dems do.

Top sum it up, it's time for the Republicans to stop the fifty year push to the right, and start coming back to the center.

There are two groups constantly wrestling for control in each party.  It's always people vs money.  Money from super wealthy donors vs people who vote in primaries and give smaller amounts of money.
Most Democrats, today, trust their big money people.  That's why Bernie never got over the hump. 
Most Republicans,  today, don't trust their big money people.  That's why they were so ready for Trump.  
So the Democratic party platform can still be shaped by changing the minds of a small number of elite people.
The Republican can not, today.  Maybe in the future it will be able to, or maybe it will die and be replaced with a new party.  But there is no one person or group who can do the work of cleansing the party of bad people and bad ideas.  It has to come down to millions and millions of individual Republicans all making that decision.