How many times were Reagan and Nixon going to run before they got the nod? McCain? Romney? W's singular skill was being the son of a former President.

Yeah, Hillary is running for Obama's third term. But otherwise Dems don't double down year after year. That'd be the Republicans. Trump's bull in a china shop approach doesn't change this.

Yes. And I consider them both neocons as was the George W. administration. That's what I'm referring to as the status quo.

As a lifelong democrat I'm very excited to see what happens to the GOP in the next few years. I don't expect the DNC to change in a significant way.

There's a definite divide between the moderate GOP and the new, hard right GOP that far surpasses the small, somewhat positive divide when the tea party movement came to be ca 2009.

In fact, he was just officially endorsed by the KKK's official newspaper... his whopping 2nd newspaper endorsement!

His campaign immediately distanced themselves.