1. In 2014, a politician named Christopher McDaniel ran for Senator in the state of Mississippi.
2. Despite being a typical Republican-libertarian, the RNC and the incumbent establishment GOP senator Thad Cochran waged an ultimately successful campaign in portraying McDaniel as an unreconstructed Southern reactionary.
3. McDaniel chipped away Cochran’s voters during the primaries, and Cochran narrowly won the run-off and the election. Cochran waged a disgustingly sleazy campaign to slander McDaniel and attempted to agitate black Democratic voters to vote illegally against him.
4. Cochran and former governor Haley Barbour were the typical Reagan-Republican establishment figureheads who controlled Mississippi’s political machine. For all intents and purposes, Mississippi’s Republican machine turned on their most conservative member.
5. The late senator from Arizona, John McCain successfully purged the most prominent conservative members of Arizona’s GOP and served as the gatekeeper for the party.
6. The bizarre tendency for Arizona to elect mediocre establishment Republicans like current governor Doug Ducey and former senators Jeff Flake and Jon Kyl is evident of his purges.
7. Virginia has and always will be the headquarters for the practically liberal-suburban-milquetoast wing of the Republican party. This archetype is notoriously happy to feed their conservative colleagues to the wolves and side with liberals against said colleagues.
8. They cave on gun control, cave on immigration, espouse a “compassionate” conservatism, worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan, support interventionist foreign policies, and are identical to liberals in fetishizing democracy.
9. For all intents and purposes, they live in Northern Virginia and consider National Review to be more important than Goldwater or Kirk.

Ironically enough, most of them are never born in Virginia.
10. Mel Bradford, professor of literature and English and noted Southern reactionary conservative, was admired by Ronald Reagan for his professional work. Reagan thusly floated him as a good candidate to chair the National Endowment of Humanities in 1981.
11. Despite support from his own scholarly rival, Henry Jaffa and even William F. Buckley, the neo-conservatives like Podhoretz and Bill and Irving Kristol waged a propaganda campaign framing Bradford as a villainous Nazi for daring to criticize Abraham Lincoln.
12. The campaign was successful, and Reagan appointed neo-conservative and establishment shill William Bennett in his place. Despite having an active interest in politics, Bradford abandoned politics forever until his death in the late 90s.
13. In 1952, Robert A. Taft knew that he had a final shot to be nominated for president. He had a reputation as "Mr. Republican" - isolationist, a ruthless critic of social liberalism and the New Deal, and more importantly, a critic of a liberal East Coast Republicanism.
14. The fact that he warned against the Nuremberg trials in the face of popular disapproval and his criticism of business Republicans in New York rendered him anathema. Taft was in danger of being nominated during the first few ballots during the GOP's convention in 1952.
15. Panicked, Thomas Dewey, the incompetent liberal-in-disguise and interventionist, persuaded Dwight Eisenhower to run, knowing full well that Taft's principles and integrity had no chance against the popular appeal of Eisenhower. Eisenhower/Nixon would win in '52 and '56.
16. In 1964, Dan Evans was elected at the age of 39 to governor of Washington state. Evans was a liberal-in-disguise, promoting an income tax and overbearing bureaucracies at every turn. He refused to support Nixon, and remained a Rockefeller bootlicker.
17. Evans victory was engineered by C. Montgomery Johnson, the PRO-CHOICE chairman of the state's Republican party. Johnson lead a McCain style purge of the state's party of conservative members of the John Birch society.
18. Johnson argued that "right-wing extremists" from the Society should be rid of to make the party "respectable" and "electable." When he retired, he worked to elect Democratic governors.
19. Washington state's GOP has mostly followed Johnson's preaching since his death - obsessed only with issues like car tabs and spewing soulless platitudes about Reagan and being more offended by unions than illegals.

Washington hasn't seen a GOP governor since 1984.
It goes on forever. It doesn't stop.
The Republican Party in its founding was a revolutionary, liberal party, and it only began to cloak itself in conservatism during the New Deal. It has always, and will always, deal with a liberal wing.
But these liberals and Establishment types have many things in common.
- Reagan worship
- platitudes about taxes
- caving on every conservative issue possible
- being two-faced, etc
Most importantly, these men and women HATE the American heartland. The Rocky Mountain states, Midwest, Upper and Lower South, the Rustbelt, all are at least somewhat loyal to the Republican party, out of desperation if anything.
The GOP KNOWS that conservatives, and paleo-conservatives have nowhere else to go. The GOP has a monopoly on conservatism, and in order to succeed in the party, you have to cave, and lick a lot of Establishment boots to get there.
It is dirty and despicable behavior, and should be seen as such. Conservatism Inc. SHOULD be viewed with open contempt and mocked at every turn for their incompetence.
But first and foremost, I wanted to make this thread to warn people. The GOP is never to be trusted fully.
They've infiltrated for a long time now, and they're not going away.

Remember McDaniel, Bradford and Taft, and remember today's Kristols, Charlie Kirks, Gorkas, etc.
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