&gt; I think Republicans need to face the fact that they just nominated someone who&#x27;s entire platform lacks even basic critical thought.<p>While Donald Trump has blown up the entire conservative base this year, this is fundamentally untrue.<p>Read through the Growth and Opportunity project, written by key conservatives in 2012. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goproject.gop.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goproject.gop.com&#x2F;</a><p>There is a LOT of depth and understanding here that liberals miss out all the time. True, conservatives have blind spots in their policies. But liberals have blind spots all the same.<p>And when you read good reports like the Growth and Opportunity Project, you start seeing the benefits of conservative thought. Conservatives are very local and have trust in the smallest, closest government to them. (So much so, they wish to remove powers from the Federal government to &quot;give back to the States&quot;). In part, its because local government is where the GOP and conservative values functions best.<p>In particular, I found the chapter on Campaign Finance to be intriguing, because online you normally only see people who are against Citizens United. But you can see that the true conservative argument is far more nuanced and comes from a completely different perspective.