Election Debates

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Originally Posted by DanaC

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In some ways that's healthy - people having agency over the fundamental shape of the party. In other ways it's toxic. It's become tribal, and bitter. At times the two sides hate each other far more than they hate their political opposition. And they will each happily cripple their party in order to stop the other side gaining control.

This sounds much like the current state of the GOP (the Grand Old Party, the Republican Party). There's a great deal of infighting to appeal to the voters, and the clash between the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party and other various sub-species of conservatives provides an unending source of the conflict you describe. There's even an epithet for those who are deemed unworthy or false Republicans, RINO (Republican In Name Only). It is more exhausting than entertaining.