All these collapses are always temporary because Democrats do not have a strategy to link corruption and incompetence of local and national republican politicians to the party as a whole.
On the flip side, when Pelosi or Hillary or any local Democrat does something that Republicans think is especially stupid, right wing pundits link those actions to the entire Democratic party. That’s how they poison the well when it comes to ever voting for Team Blue. Every Democrat is a communist in their literature and speeches. Every Democrat is going to raise your taxes. Every Democrat is going to vote in regulation that will kill your job.
Democrats, on the flip side, are far more likely to give a fresh Republican face a chance. And it’s infuriating to see because even these young new Republicans still tow the line and vote in the same stupid, awful legislation that Republicans have been pushing for decades now.
The fresh Republicans are the ones that have been raised by Tea Party ideals. They’ve heard ‘burn it all down’ so much that they hate Republicans that don’t actually do it. You see this with the group that didn’t want Kevin McCarthy, because he didn’t do enough to burn it down beforehand.
Oh absolutely. Some of the older Republicans knew that this was all just silly political games. They’d blast what a Dem would say during the day and then go out drinking with that same person at night. Many of those old timers were on quite friendly terms but they played the game that the “other side” was the bad guy. Thats simply how politics was done.
This younger group don’t get that. They grew up seeing their Republican heros blast the Left on Fox News. They didn’t know it was mostly just a game. They got radicalized by right wing media and many of them simply can’t be reasoned with because they don’t see politics as a game, they see it as a life-and-death war.
All these collapses are always temporary because Democrats do not have a strategy to link corruption and incompetence of local and national republican politicians to the party as a whole.
On the flip side, when Pelosi or Hillary or any local Democrat does something that Republicans think is especially stupid, right wing pundits link those actions to the entire Democratic party. That’s how they poison the well when it comes to ever voting for Team Blue. Every Democrat is a communist in their literature and speeches. Every Democrat is going to raise your taxes. Every Democrat is going to vote in regulation that will kill your job.
Democrats, on the flip side, are far more likely to give a fresh Republican face a chance. And it’s infuriating to see because even these young new Republicans still tow the line and vote in the same stupid, awful legislation that Republicans have been pushing for decades now.
The fresh Republicans are the ones that have been raised by Tea Party ideals. They’ve heard ‘burn it all down’ so much that they hate Republicans that don’t actually do it. You see this with the group that didn’t want Kevin McCarthy, because he didn’t do enough to burn it down beforehand.
Oh absolutely. Some of the older Republicans knew that this was all just silly political games. They’d blast what a Dem would say during the day and then go out drinking with that same person at night. Many of those old timers were on quite friendly terms but they played the game that the “other side” was the bad guy. Thats simply how politics was done.
This younger group don’t get that. They grew up seeing their Republican heros blast the Left on Fox News. They didn’t know it was mostly just a game. They got radicalized by right wing media and many of them simply can’t be reasoned with because they don’t see politics as a game, they see it as a life-and-death war.