Part of me is saddened that you have pulled out of the run for President from the Republican Party. Trump needs opposition, and an actual challenge to show how qualified he might or might not currently be at actually running and/or serving should he win the election. Cult status is not a qualification. He should be required to debate, to speak to a national audience, to allow the country to evaluate him as a candidate in a field of contenders.
However, I wish you to know that you would never have been the chosen candidate in your party, with the make-up of our your party as it is today. The Republicans have gone so far to extremes that they would have rejected you for a pair of reasons. First, you are a woman. Personally, I think that is fine. But your party is busy taking rights away from women lately, and aside from a minority of individuals in your party, would never have accepted you, however qualified you may or may not be. The second thing is, and again I don't personally find this a disqualification, you are not "white". The Republican party on the whole has become proudly white nationalist, with plenty of encouragement from Trump.
It is my assessment that your run was born out of stupidity in not evaluating who your party is made up of these days. You made the mistake of adding to that stupidity by trying to pander to some of the worst members of your party when you claimed that the Civil War was not about slavery. Yes, I have heard that claim through the years. The defenders of that position claim is was fought over "states' rights".
What kinds of rights were they fighting over that none of the other (winning) states would allow them? That would be the right of those states to declare that their white citizens had the right to actually OWN other humans because of the amount of melanin in their skin, also known as referring to as their race as Negro. If the legal ability of white skinned individuals to OWN darker skinned individuals for no reason other than color is not the very definition of slavery, I have no idea what is.
Let's not pile on the stupidity, eh? Or at least don't pretend that we haven't noticed.
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