For Republicans, Mounting Fears of Lasting Split

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/us/politics/for-republicans-mounting-fears-of-lasting-split.html?google_editors_picks=true&_r=1

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The Republican Party is facing a historic split over its fundamental principles and identity, as its once powerful establishment grapples with an eruption of class tensions, ethnic resentments and mistrust among working-class conservatives who are demanding a presidential nominee who represents their interests.

At family dinners and New Year’s parties, in conference calls and at private lunches, longtime Republicans are expressing a growing fear that the coming election could be shattering for the party, or reshape it in ways that leave it unrecognizable.

While warring party factions usually reconcile after brutal nomination fights, this race feels different, according to interviews with more than 50 Republican leaders, activists, donors and voters, from both elite circles and the grass roots.
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Originally posted in LBN but it was locked.

[saltpoint]

1. I hope the wheels fly off the Republican

shitwagon and the whole thing veers into a very deep ditch.

I don't need any wait time on this outcome. I'm ready to deploy immediately.

[FLPanhandle]

2. This is a self inflicted wound

By allowing and promoting things like Fox News, they reap what they sow.

[Gothmog]

3. Trump could destroy the current GOP

[spanone]

4. i don't see it. the republicans have done NOTHING to bring trump down.

NOTHING.

if he looks like he can win, the establishment republicans will embrace him like the second coming of Jesus.