Yeah, except their idea of a "collective" is Skull and Bones, the Harvard Porcellians, and the New York Athletic Club.
Oh, excuse me -- I misspelled "Hahvuhd", Johnny Hayseed me.
The author needs to go back a lot farther than 1992, though.
In 1968 and 1976, the RiNO's backstabbed Ronnie.
In 1964, they backstabbed Barry.
In 1960, they backstabbed Barry and the Bob Taft Republicans. In 1952, they backstabbed everybody to the right of Owen Lattimore by bringing in Dwight Eisenhower to blindside the conservatives who wanted Bob Taft.
And who the hell knows before that. You could go back to the Mugwumps, I suppose.
Third Party, anyone?