Professor
I see Biden as a very weak version of a Stephen Douglas figure, Trump as a much stronger rightist Lincoln type.If I am correct, Trumpists, but maybe not Trump himself, will pull a Lincoln Conspiracy, cannibalize the Democratic Party to the extent necessary, taking its white folks and conservatives of color with them, and also gut the Republican Party, much as Lincoln's New Republican Party gutted his own Whig party to get ahead in the 1850s.
Lincoln's own conspirators then cheated him out of his agreed Ohio Senate seat.
What you mentioned at the end, re Virginia Republicans, contains a hint of that larger possible trend.
Ohio did a Republican presidential convention because Lincoln insisted on it. And, frankly, he deserved it.
All the best,
All the best
The New York Times reports this morning that leading elements of the Virginia Republican party are fighting to replace their gubernatorial primary with a convention this year, because a rabid Trump supporter named Amanda Chase might win that party with as little as 30% of the vote.
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