I can't resist, Jim. A socialist presidential aspirant is arguably the most popular politician in America today. Universal registration won't work, at least for long guns, as the Canadian experiment proved.
When your fears are realized, you'll have to ask yourself why the GOP gave up on itself, allowed an unqualified to take it over to purge the party of racial minorities and and cast its lot with a declining white majority.
Don't blame it on "clueless Americans."
Your question is easily answered King. The GOP didn't give up on itself. The head of it, the elected senators and representatives, gave up on their base and became functionally indistinguishable on most issues from the Democratic rivals.
