America, are you for real?

[llargh]

I am deeply, deeply relieved. America managed to not let the religiously fanatical, the anti-science, the fearfully xenophobic, the prejudiced, and the woefully uninformed GOP base take over last night. This is not the GOP we can afford to have right now, and I sincerely hope that they heal and restructure themselves in the next 4-8 years. I was

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[metallian]

I would love to see a more "Rockefeller Republican" sorta thing happening, but there are two problems:

1) The Democrats have already kind of become that sort of Republican. (What party would Dwight Eisenhower belong to today?)

2) The Republicans can't afford to neglect "the base" because they are so numerous and motivated and wealthy.

So I don't have a lot of hope for a dramatic reinvention. Hopefully we can ride this momentum for a while and keep edging the extremist wing out of positions of power until hearts and minds (and, frankly, demographics) change.

[llargh]

makes a lot of sense.