I disagree. Let’s leave it at that. Your comparing this point in our history with 200+ years ago makes further debate meaningless.
Actually, the Whig comparison is very apt. That party fell apart around 1854 when it refused to stand together on principles. One group within it was defiantly anti-slavery (Conscience) and the other didn’t want to touch social issues and wanted to stick to economics (the Cottons). Sound familiar ?
The GOP goes RINO, and it will end up just like the Whigs. As dead as can be. That’s already happened in the northeast, parts of the midwest, and the west coast.
“200+ years ago?”
How about 150 as in 1856?
History’s a great teacher if you don’t ignore its lessons.
Political parties who turn to squishes on fundamental core principals are destined for the ash heap of history.
In this case the Right-to Life plank has been in the party platform since 1980. Nominating a full-throated Roe supporter, Giuliani, will be a direct repudiation of that platform that’s existed through 6 presidential elections and will invariably cause the social conservatives, including me, to bolt the party just as anti-slavery Whigs did from their party in 1856.
Some things are too fundamental to wave off.