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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, February 6, 2020

More On Romney

Yes, Democrats savaged him in 2012, because it was a campaign.  Some savaging is to be expected. 

But Romney always represented the version of the GOP that the GOP tells itself it is.  A pro-business, low-state involvement, socially moderate center-right party. Trump - and Romney by opposing him - has exposed what the bulk of the GOP actually is: a party of white grievance.

Also worth remembering: in 2012, Mitt Romney got 47% of the vote. In 2016, Donald Trump got 46%.
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