Timeline for Why are American liberals more prone to in-fighting than conservatives?
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| Jun 1, 2023 at 21:55 | comment | added | reirab | This is the correct answer. A large part of the reason Trump even got nominated in 2016 was precisely because there was so much division among the more mainstream Republican candidates. Several of Trump's early "wins" in the primaries were with significant minorities of the actual votes cast, just the others were split up between several other candidates (but especially Rubio, Kasich, and Cruz.) Trump won the 2016 primary with the lowest percentage of the primary votes of a GOP nominee in nearly half a century. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 15:25 | comment | added | OpenAI was the last straw | We also see I believe five Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential season already, and just look at what drama is unfolding in Texas, where the GOP-controlled House of Representatives just impeached the Republican State Attorney General after he allegedly tried to obtain state funds to pay off personal debts. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 9:41 | comment | added | Wes Sayeed | @nanoman; You are correct. Gore’s nomination was unanimous at the DNC, but none of Bradley’s delegates were allowed to vote for him because he didn’t win any primaries. There was one debate between them and I missed that. I’ve updated my answer to reflect it. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 9:41 | history | edited | Wes Sayeed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2023 at 5:16 | comment | added | nanoman | "Al Gore ran unopposed for the Democrat party nomination" -- no, he had an opponent, Bill Bradley, who won 522 delegates to Gore's 3,007. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 21:56 | comment | added | Wes Sayeed | @MichaelRichardson; OK, I read up on the 1992 election and it seems Bush 41 won the nomination handily with 73% of the vote. That's pretty much a cake walk. But he did still have to show up for a Republican debate, which is more than Al Gore had to do. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 21:33 | comment | added | Wes Sayeed | @MichaelRichardson; I disagree. In 1992 George H.W. Bush was regarded as Reagan's 3rd term but he still had to run against 3 other Republican candidates to secure the nomination. On the Democrats' side, Hillary Clinton was the heir-apparent in 2008 before Obama swooped in and stole her crown. So really, it kind of bolsters my argument :-D | |
| May 31, 2023 at 21:08 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | 2000 should probably also not count for this exercise as Gore was essentially the incumbent. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 20:46 | comment | added | lazarusL | Also Trump was a huge ideological break from previous GOP candidates. He basically made a coup against the GOP leadership by embracing right-branded overt populism instead of any sort of coherent conservatism, constitutionalism, or classical liberalism a la American founding. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 8:21 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | True. Ever since the advent of the Tea Party and more recently the rise of right fringe and conspiracy extremists who do not share much common ground with anybody outside their conspiracy bubble, Republicans are one party only in name. The leadership has a harder time keeping the party together against the centrifugal forces than the Democrats. The current budget fight is another example. | |
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| May 31, 2023 at 7:18 | history | answered | Wes Sayeed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |