Has the GOP Actually Won a Presidential Election Since 1928?
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Think about it.
First, stipulate that while Eisenhower may have been in tune with the moderate Republican ideology of his era, he was in no way a GOP apparatchik, had never run for any lesser office under the GOP umbrella, and never served in any appointed position as a Republican. As a senior military officer, like most senior military back then, he largely avoided politics or overt partisan identification until he teamed up with the moderate wing of the GOP to prevent Taft from being elected and undoing NATO and the UN and other post-WWII global alliances.
Now, look again.
What does the GOP have to do, to win a Presidential election?
Since Eisenhower, five GOP candidates have won Presidential elections.
Nixon colluded with a hostile foreign power to nuke the Paris peace accords, contributing to his victory.
Reagan colluded with a hostile foreign power to prevent resolution of the Iran hostage crisis, contributing to his victory.
GW Bush gamed the electoral process (cheated) to hand a conservative-dominated Supreme Court the opportunity to hand him the Presidency.
[Redacted] both colluded with a hostile foreign power AND gamed the electoral process (cheated).
It is just conceivably possible that GHW Bush won fairly and squarely. It's possible that his terms as GOP chair, envoy to China, and Director of the CIA, not to mention his family's unsavory history of doing business with international, er, parties, had little or nothing to do with his electoral victory.
It's possible.
So, maybe the GOP has won ONE Presidential election since Herbert Hoover's 1928 victory.
Maybe.
But colluding with hostile foreign powers and outright cheating have been much more reliable for them.
historically,
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Like to besmirch H Bush a bit since he almost escapes here. The Bush lineage going back to Hitler financier, Senator Bush from Connecticut, has been dedicated to the proposition, that the richest should not have to pay taxes - that proposition has been the family lifeblood, and the ultimate source of their riches. Elective office support for Bushes has been very reliable. So there. 
... that might have been stolen. There were shenanigans in Illinois, the first Mayor Daley did some underhanded things to give Illinois to Kennedy. It was enough to make Kennedy the winner in 1960, but it may have been stolen from Nixon.
Before we Dems can right right the ship, we need to acknowledge our sins. It happened almost 60 years ago and that time, the Democrats were wrong. Not only that, after Nixon lost he started in with the dirty tricks and other shit to make sure he would never lose again, and that's how we got Watergate.
... but it's important to remember that we're sinners too. We've been guilty of buying/selling votes, gerrymandering when it suited us, and indifference to racial and gender minorities. The Democrats need to FIX these PROBLEMS for all Americans, not just to get one-up on the Republicans.
We already know for a fact that the GOP will never fix the problems. It's our job and we need to do it as soon as we gain majority.
