Thread by @tomiahonen

Yes. a parallel to Mondale 1984 & DEMs RT @9monthsyourgone
Replying to @UES82624940 @1stKiersten

It’s time for sanity in America vote Joe Biden about an overwhelming numbers it’s not over we have to make sure we send a clear message pack your bags and go home

So these kinds of directional mistakes happen in all democracies, over time. In the USA, the Democrats got ever more lost in the late 1970s and 1980s, leading to 1984 Mondale loss where he took about 40% of the vote

After that DEMs regrouped, noticed they need NEW DIRECTION

What Mondale era DEMs were offering was 'classic' socialism ('lite', Europeans would add). When Bill Clinton came with a centrist and more business-friendly view, suddenly DEMs were again popular. It is a question of going too far to one edge. The GOP did this with Newt Gingrich

It was not obvious until we saw Sarah Palin & Tea Party. That cancer corrupted the old Republican party so that today's Trump GOP is essentially all Sarah Palin fans and the more centrist 'John McCain' style Republican have been ousted (John Kasich, Jon Huntsman, Ana Navarro etc)

As long as GOP remains in loonie-ville pushing Teabaggers, ie Maganutters, they will lose MASSIVELY in national elections (Senate, Congress, President) and will be increasingly ousted. They will then learn, and return to 'sanity' ie the center.

This would have happened naturally

Remember Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 by 3 million to Hillary. If not for the obsolete Electoral College, Hillary would be President now. And if Trump had lost in 2016, the Tea Party would have been discredited, and GOP already now on the mend. Instead they now have war

The GOP is now in an internal civil war, for the soul of the party. I believe it has already died (the party) killed by Trump. I would suggest healthiest thing for America is a genuine split of Tea Party & GOP. And I think Republicans need a new party name & new centrist view

But regardless. If you can only attract 40% of a national election in a 2 party system, your message is kaput. Your party is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It has gone to meet its maker... Trump killed the GOP