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a generation of young Republican staff members appears to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.
I’d be curious to see similar math for republicans. It’s probably a similar amount of time where they had full bully powers to do whatever they wanted, right? Maybe it’s just me, but I’m fine if that kind of power from a single party is rare. If it happened more often we would get much more volatility as laws were changed back and forth. This way change happens more slowly, but it’s generally objectively good change rather than reactionary or populist.
The difference is that the left needs legislation for progress to happen. The right is more or less happy if nothing changes. The right wants to stop things like universal healthcare, good public schools, new environmental policies, etc etc. That’s their main objective, to keep things status quo. So the left needs all three to pass legislation. The right need any 1 of those 3 because all they want to do is block things from happening. Very different.
Yep, and so we get very gradual change. It’s not like the political environment is actually broken into left or right anyway. If the Republican party disappeared overnight, conservative Democrats would immediately become the new hurdles to progress, albeit shifted a bit to the left. “Progressive” policies would be more left, and the new “conservative” policies would as well, but they would still be conservative relative to the others.