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Does that even matter? Would you condone fraud by a party because they have stronger competitors? For me it wouldn't matter, I think that if the people in charge of this organization do something that is against the law and then use tricks to escape the consequences then they fully deserve to have the book thrown at them.

I just wonder if that is the case here or not according to US corporate law.

The NRA served as a financial conduit to force the GOP to take more and more extreme positions on gun rights by threatening to fund primary challenges to any republicans who “stepped out of line.”

The have successfully wielded this power to great effect for the last three decades.

The "step out of line" problem in the GOP is real. It allows the extreme voices in the party to consistently target an individual politician while corralling everyone else. Meanwhile it also encourages the notion that the GOP has internal discussion and isn't very unified while voting on all issues as a unified block.

Every republican I know can name a few GOP platform positions they dislike or even find alarming, but never the less they vote for politicians who are forced to adopt every position.

The problem is even worse for the Democrats on abortion, there are no pro-life Democrats allowed at the national level. The GOP is tolerant on guns in comparison.

Nice whataboutism. You got some ammo to back up that claim? The GOP is nothing if not unified to a fault. They're strong because they will tow the line to hold power. (Mitch hates trump and Cruz got in line even after the mud slinging about his wife.) It's fractured now but they've historically been in lock step, even when it was against their personal, publicly stated, beliefs. Democrats have been weak because they don't require the same level of kool-aid consumption.

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