Courtesy of FORBES magazine, this was an interesting contrast between Romney 2012 and Trump 2016:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/20...y/#28b451fb1661
Trump did better in 38 states over Romney, including winning many Democrat strongholds in the Mid-Atlantic coast and the Rust Belt that were considered unwinnable. 2012 is widely considered a presidential campaign that Romney should have won, but for a poorly managed campaign, that allowed Obama to be more than a one-term president.
All of which hammers home the point that Romney (who actually benefitted from Trump endorsement in Nov 2018, to win his Senate seat) is absolutely the last person who could credibly bash Trump. And yet he does. What an ingrate.
Romney and McCain are both 100% proof to me that there is absolutely no negotiation possible with the Democrat/Left. That no matter how moderate and milquetoast,
any Republican will be bashed as "extreme", "right wing", "white supremacist", "scary", "dangerous", "Nazi/Hitler" and so forth. Except in the case where they attack their fellow Republicans. But Dems and the media will again label them "extreme/right-wing" the moment they step out of line and behave like Republicans again.
