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Wow, you would fit right in with the self-righteous progressives.

Let’s play a little game, shall we?

*Time Travel to 2008*

“We don’t have to reach out to social conservatives. They lost, we won. And what are they going to do? Stay home? If they do, it will be their fault that Obama wins!” - McCain supporters.

*Time Travel to 2012*

“We don’t have to reach out to evangelicals. They lost, we won. And what are they going to do? Stay home? If they do, it will be their fault that Obama is re-elected!” - Romney supporters.

*Back to the Present*

“We don’t have to reach out to Cruz supporters. They lost, we won. And what are they going to do? Stay home? If they do, it will be their fault that Clinton is elected!” - Trump supporters.

But Trump won by a huge margin, right?

Well, in 2008, McCain won 46.7% of the votes in the Republican Primary season. Huckabee won 20.1% of the votes. McCain lost in the general election.

In 2012, Romney won 52.1% of the votes. Santorum won 20.4%. Romney lost in the general election.

In 2016, Trump won 45.0% of the votes. Cruz won 25.1%

Trump needs the Cruz voters. He has to have them if he is to win.

And guess what? He knows that and is rebuilding the fences needed to win Cruz’s voters over. He knows, from the last two elections, that telling voters they have no where else to go is just encouraging them to sit out the election.

That’s been the mentality of the last two GOP campaigns and why we had two terms of Obama.

Trump is reaching out. But the Trump supporters on Freerepublic? Nope! Two months later and they are still re-opening the wounds, still rubbing in salt, still full of vitriolic rhetoric.

Why?

Many people on this site have felt that their voices have been silenced because if they dare have a different opinion, if they dare ask questions, if they dare challenge Trump on any single issue, they will be hounded and attacked by dozens of others who don’t use actual arguments to disagree.

Want to see the real effect of this? The quarterly fundraisers used to take around 50 days to complete. The last quarter took 64 I believe. And this one is already behind schedule. 13% in 11 days.

People aren’t going to support a site where they feel their voices can’t be heard.

The #NeverTrump people are gone. They were purged back in April. But that isn’t good enough for many Trump supporters. No, they must go after anyone who supported Cruz in the primaries. Even if they have said they support Trump in the general.

And those same people patrol the threads looking for anyone who steps out of line on 100% support for Trump.

That’s what it has come to, and it needs to stop. If Freerepublic shrinks down to a small cabal of Trump supporters who live in an echo chamber, then it will not financially survive, nor will it have the influence over conservative politics that it once did.

>>And those same people patrol the threads looking for anyone who steps out of line on 100% support for Trump.
That’s what it has come to, and it needs to stop.
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That’s right, and I am proud to “out” ANYONE who is so disrespectful to JR.

Who are YOU to tell JR what Free Republic needs to do? It’s HIS private site, and he will tell YOU the way he wants it to be.

I can’t believe after all this time, we are still reading posts from people who think they have some kind of “right” to pronounce how Free Republic should be run. So disrespectful, so rude, so arrogant.

Just respect JR’s rules or, as he says, TAKE IT ELSEWHERE.
End of Story.