# When should Republicans start setting themselves up as the anti-Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 30, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-should-republicans-start-setting-themselves-up-as-the-anti-trump/1002275 "2024-05-30T13:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-should-republicans-start-setting-themselves-up-as-the-anti-trump/1002275/38 "2024-05-30T19:33:44Z")
Didn’t we already do this? It’s only been 5 months since the last post in this thread: > [@Is now the time for moderate Republicans to try to retake control of the party?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-now-the-time-for-moderate-republicans-to-try-to-retake-control-of-the-party/969704/210): > > We’re all yelling (largely in unison) but once again I’ll bring up that the chance for ‘moderates’ to claim the party was probably sometime in the immediate post-Regan years. That was when the Religious Right became the tail that started to Wag the Dog. As it grew ever more dominant, then they could have realized they were becoming welded to that specific ideology rather than any semblance of a “conservative” political platform. And each election, a new, more reactionary faction would be adde… Anyway, my feelings are largely unchanged from the linked post. The Republicans had been losing on their prior strategies, and kept bringing in “new blood” to boost their numbers - the ever increasing number of crazed individuals that were _if anything_ only united in hate of various other segments of society. And now said groups are the majority and the Republican party as it was, at least pre-Religious Right/Reagan Era is largely dead. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-should-republicans-start-setting-themselves-up-as-the-anti-trump/1002275)._