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The Republican Party today is like night and day from the GOP of 1964. The same can be said about the Democratic Party. Both have evolved beyond recognition of what both were back in 1964. Goldwater, IKE, JFK and LBJ would never recognize today's Republican and Democratic Parties.

Probably the biggest difference is that both parties had their liberal and conservative wings back then. Remember the solid conservative south that was 100% guaranteed to go democratic, where even an Eisenhower couldn't win a single state, twice. Remember the old Rockefeller liberal Republicans of the Northeast? Remember the big tent democratic Party where there were no litmus tests? Remember when the GOP was basically the country club party that Goldwater railed about? Remember when the Democrats represented the working man, the middle class?

I used to think both parties by shedding their unwanted wings, the Democrats their conservatives, the Republicans their liberals and today both are trying to get rid of their moderates, those in the center, center right and center left. Both became in their own right ideologues. I still believe that about the Democrats. Not so about the Republicans, they seem to have tossed their ideals onto the trash heap of history in favor of an egotistical opportunist who in reality stand for nothing but himself.

The GOP has went from traditional conservative values to Trump values whatever that is. Yes, the Republican Party has lost it way. It has lost it zeal for conservative values to Trumpism which is nothing more than trying to feed his mega huge ego. He stands for nothing except himself.

This from a man who considered Barry Goldwater his political mentor, who defines his politics as being a Goldwater conservative with some of Perot thrown in.