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In reply to the discussion: They are turning on Trumpy! About time! Mona Charen just wrote about being escorted out of CPAC [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)than the Repub electorate in ideology. This has been proven again and again by examination of voting records against polls. The Repub senate only somewhat overlaps the far right of the conservative electorate, while the Repub house doesn't at all. Bizarre, but there aren't enough ultrawealthy extremists in the electorate to show on graphs, and they're who're driving this.
For some time they've been starting to feel that, and after all, both the tea party and Trump were attempts at rebellion.
Unfortunately, what they have not learned from experience is that Democrats are not their big enemy and most are still intractably opposed to us. The ones who are able to join with us to stop what's happening, though, are national treasures. We're big on hugging here in the South, and if I see one in person I may give in to impulse.