[Lancey Howard]

Where are the old time rats lamenting how their once-proud party has gone communist? Who can’t understand how their party became the party of moochers, the party of the feckless “victim” class, the atheists, abortion enthusiasts, union pinky rings, condom-throwers, Boy Scout haters, hand-wringing college professors, Georgetown sluts, Hollywood drunks, and America-hating malcontents?

No. Only Republicans lament how their party has failed to “compromise” with that kind of scum.

[Poison Pill]

Where are the old time rats lamenting how their once-proud party has gone communist?

Scoop Jackson has left the building

[Fantasywriter]

‘Where are the old time rats lamenting how their once-proud party has gone communist? Who can’t understand how their party became the party of moochers, the party of the feckless “victim” class, the atheists, abortion enthusiasts, union pinky rings, condom-throwers, Boy Scout haters, hand-wringing college professors, Georgetown sluts, Hollywood drunks, and America-hating malcontents?

No. Only Republicans lament how their party has failed to “compromise” with that kind of scum.’

That is the best summation I have ever seen.

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You heard a lot of talk like that in the 70s and 80s. Those were the Reagan Democrats.

Now those people (and others in the same demographics) are dead, or they've become Republicans, or they've gone back to supporting the Democrats.

There was a generational shift and the memory of the current generation of Democrats memory doesn't stretch much back beyond the Bush years. Holding power holds them together as well.

Soon enough, though, the alienated Republicans of the last 20 years, like Bob Dole, who's almost 90, will also be a thing of the past.