Thanks for the compliment! And also, for your input.

I totally agree. As a pretty traditional neo-liberalist republican myself, I think Trump could either represent an interesting opportunity for some in-term GOP reform, or could be catastrophic prospectively. I really don't know, as I'm having a hard time reading the sincerity, and also a hard time getting my hands on some black letter legislative-endeavors he wants to pursue.

I also think a Clinton victory could represent a ripe time for some kind of GOP renaissance where some solidarity results, and hopefully not another reactionary Tea Party-esque hard push right.

I just think it's time for republicans to start making policy concessions. As I said, I'm a pretty traditional neo-liberalist, and definitely a pro-states' rights, "militarist" republican. And in my personal opinion, self-identification of lexical political affiliation should never involve consideration of which social issues matter to you.

I obviously think social issues are incredibly important, but the semantic, dictionary definitions of conservative & liberal government structures, and republicanism and democratic structure simply don't involve social issues... They've been so incredibly perverted that the contemporary layman definitions of "republican" or "democrat" pretty much just spins on which side of the abortion, weed, same sex marriage, or gun debate you sit on. Which are issues I think are incredibly important, but your stance on them in today's world really has very little bearing on whether or not you are a republican or democrat, based on their actual definitions.

So I guess I just feel like its time for republicans to start making social policy concessions to stay competitive.

I do find it rather unfortunate that if you met a self-proclaimed democrat, who's a hedge fund manager, and happened to be a Christian who loves guns... it wouldn't be that strange.

And at the same time, if you met a self-proclaimed republican, who's a member of the BLM movement, a Buddhist, and thinks we need to open the borders... it would be really surprising.

So in my personal opinion, it's time to start balancing that out. Start making it less unique for a person to identify as a conservative republican who happens to be on the "liberal" side of social issues. The rarity of that individual makes the GOP seem much less approachable for many young Americans, and I fear that'll be detrimental to the political progression into the future.