• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    That’s not really true at all. Republican voters are the ones who wanted - and demanded - to have Trump as the nominee. Many establishment figures in the RNC did not want him. However, if they had taken steps to deny him the nomination, there’s a very real chance that he would have run third party and split the vote, which he threatened to do several times. Hell, his supporters showed up to the 2016 convention armed and in numbers, in part in case the establishment tried something last minute.

    On the Democrats’ side, the DNC have basically hand-picked establishment candidates for the past three elections, and they do it because they expect people to bend the knee and fall in line behind the lesser evil. Bernie was never going to run third party, and his supporters were never going to show up with guns at the convention. He actively campaigned for Hilary and they still blamed him, even though the number of Bernie-Trump voters was much smaller than the number of Clinton-McCain ones, and Clinton sure as hell didn’t stump for Barack.

    If Republicans are more loyal to the Republican party, it’s because the party responded to what they wanted. And the reason that they did so is because the “my way or the highway” mentality is so much more prevalent on the right. Liberals cannot ever shut up about the “lesser evil” and making the “rational” choice, while Conservatives don’t give a fuck about that shit. Conservatives don’t masturbate over how they’re so rational that they’ll humbly accept things they find morally abhorrent in order to prevent a greater evil the way liberals do, they say, “You can take my guns out of my cold dead hands,” and their politicians listen to those red lines, at least to a degree.

    Meanwhile, establishment Democrats have an actively hostile relationship with the left, and liberals still demand that we support them unconditionally.