But we didn't KNOW that until the rise of Trump.
Prior to that we at least gave plausibility to the notion that there were more of what we now call the GOPe (what used to be called the Rockefeller Republicans) than there were of us, and being fair minded we set about building our wing. NOW we know they do not in any way represent us the way they claimed they would, and are more interested in preserving the status quo than addressing what we consider problems.
If we had moved earlier, they would have been able to preserve the plausible fiction that allowed Bush to succeed Reagan and start the whole farce over again with voters who did not remember their duplicity.
“NOW we know they do not in any way represent us the way they claimed they would, and are more interested in preserving the status quo than addressing what we consider problems.”
No offense, but I knew they didn’t represent us when George Bush and the Republican congress didn’t lock down the borders on 9/11 and round up every person of Mid East origin and commence deportations proceedings, followed by massive retaliatory airstrikes and ground invasion of 1 million troops in Saudi Arabia.