# Is now the time for moderate Republicans to try to retake control of the party? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 15, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-now-the-time-for-moderate-republicans-to-try-to-retake-control-of-the-party/969704 "2022-08-15T17:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 225
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-now-the-time-for-moderate-republicans-to-try-to-retake-control-of-the-party/969704/225 "2023-10-06T23:29:51Z")
My “Yet they don’t. Why?” was intended to be rhetorical. But yes, @FlikTheBlue and @Sage_Rat, you’ve both nailed what I believe to be the problem. Here’s a snip of a post in a different thread, but it seems relevant here too. > [@Was H.L. Mencken a fascist who would have supported Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-h-l-mencken-a-fascist-who-would-have-supported-trump/991184/6): > > The other major difference is that the rightist side has the easy downhill track. Like a car with bad alignment, raw human nature in the bulk pulls to the right and can be steered to the left only by dint of continuous education, nurturing, and wide exposure to the rest of humanity not similar to yourself. It only takes one generation of neglect to allow the crude know-nothing right-leaning state of nature to be renewed. As applied to this thread and my points earlier, selling RW crazy is “going with the grain” of raw human nature to a degree that selling e.g. capital-P Progressivism simply isn’t. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-now-the-time-for-moderate-republicans-to-try-to-retake-control-of-the-party/969704)._