Pretend you’re a moderate McCain- or Poppy-Bush style Republican:

1. Your party is infested with Tea Party, Freedom Caucus, and unyielding evangelicals.   You’re paralyzed.
2. For eight years,  you’ve only seen them grow.  Your friends are losing their seats to  them, and you’re not sure you can keep winning.
3. Your business friends are seriously worried – shutdowns, talk about defaults, none of that stuff is good for business.
4. You conclude that you can’t reclaim the party in any meaningful time frame and that you need a new home to rebuild the base.
5. Third party?  Oi, that’s a lot of work.
6. Despair.
7. But wait!
8. Look! Across the aisle, a hawkish, pro-business candidate is about to take over the Democratic party!
9. No, guys, seriously.  The new Democratic leader has always been malleable, has women locked up, and seems to get votes from blacks and Hispanics without having to give them anything.
10. Forget abortion!  It’s more trouble than it’s worth as a wedge issue and we can’t count on the women in our lives or in our party to keep going along with us on that one.
11. Seriously:  Let’s blow up this party with a maniacal candidate who will whip our fringes into a frenzy, then flip flop so much their heads will still be spinning by the time the inauguration rolls around.  They won’t realize all the money and structure is gone until the mid-terms.
12. And boom! We take over the other party which is moving towards a center we’ve always liked.
13. Seriously, there’s somebody here already asking for our money!  Let’s make a deal!

#micdrop

#boom

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