What I m saying is that both parties have effectively eliminated their middles. The rhinos on the R side, the socially conservative element on the D side.
Therefore, they are both much easier to capture by candidates with radical views. The party of Ford, Reagan, and Bush wouldn't nominate Trump. The D's barely escaped Bernie but not by much. The party of Bill Clinton would have laughed Sanders out of the convention hall.
If he would have been nominated, it would have been the two most radical candidates in modern times. As it stands he pushed Cankles far to the left where she will need to stay even in the general campaign.
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