“While the GOP has remained ideologically consistent since at least the 1980s”
actually, no. the GOP itself had substantially moved to the left itself, favoring open borders, favoring globalism, favoring “free” (unfair) trade, and overall favoring polices that were substantially beneficial to the plutocrats but substantially detrimental to the honest, taxpaying, working folk of our nation ...
we here at FR regularly railed against this GOPe/RINO/neocon cabal and lamented that we need a third party or for someone to seize the GOP party levers of power and transform the GOP party into the conservative party that they claimed to be, and into a party that actually promoted policies beneficial to the well-being of we the people ... and of course we all know that Donald J Trump is the one who actually effected that transformation that we had all been praying for ...
“we here at FR regularly railed against this GOPe/RINO/neocon cabal and lamented that we need a third party or for someone to seize the GOP party levers of power and transform the GOP party into the conservative party that they claimed to be, and into a party that actually promoted policies beneficial to the well-being of we the people ... and of course we all know that Donald J Trump is the one who actually effected that transformation that we had all been praying for ...”
I’d put down money that says DJT or at least Don Jr. was lurking here BIGLY!)