If Trump wins, will the Republicans be able to fix these institutional problems? Just months ago they torpedoed the Border security bill to keep the issue hot for the election (and Trump) and to satisfy their bilateral vendetta. They are as much invested in petty culture war (and 'owing' libs) as the far-left if not more. The social conservatives you talked about previously, who are principled and serious, I don't see them in GOP. Either it is people like Trump who is nuts, or religious fundamentalist like Ted cruise and DeSantis who are on a whole another level.
But more importantly, as I said before, federal overreach and some institutional issues caused by agressive (?) Leftwing policies does not negate the problem with far-right threats to democracy and human rights. One glaring example is how they are interfering with women's fundamental rights by trying to ban abortion wherever they could.
Look buddy.... you are reliant on the ivory tower pravda dripfeed that comes your way to begin with, be it the coastal elite MSM (adjudging itself as perfect and everyone else some degree of imperfect further they are from the ivory tower).....or the adhoc splattering that arrives in twitter and social media and so on.
I live here, I have made several friends here from all sides of the political spectrum. The one thing in common that makes them my friends is a common heavy distrust of the ivory tower to begin with.
So its little surprise you got the 3 line superficial summary on some "attempted border deal", without having gone through the details (with left, centre and right leaning folk on the ground that one trusts) as to what the proposed spending was actually on (heavy delusional coastal elite crap like making more facilities to "process" the flow rather than anything to do with stemming the flow)....much less what were the actual border patrol agents reaction to it.
The kind of proposal from ivory tower kind of folks in martha's vineyard that to begin with objectively throw an extreme hissy fit over 50 illegals showing up where they live....w-w-w-wait you cant just make us actually live by our claimed ideology, how dare you reeeee...the illegals are supposed to be stuck with the conservatives or tucked away in inner cities were our monolith is unassailable...reeee
Or this abortion summary, like that hasn't been hashed out with friends I trust....as to what was the democrat policy before over-federalized decision of Roe v Wade....and the value of leaving it to each state to make policy at the state level.
What's next the EU ought to have one monolith policy on something so sensitive to question of morality (when does life start?)....putting aside the current democrat position far to the left of majority of EU countries.
Turkiye (standard 1st trimester option if I'm not mistaken) would if it were in EU, be ok with brussels as the be all end all on such a matter....compared to its local people?
I'm well aware of what DC ivory tower broadcasts as its position and then how it selectively packages reactions of rest of its country that are contrary to it. Just like Europe would have if it overcentralises in Brussels on social policies far past its economic-legal ones.....having already lost UK to the latter matters concerning this.
The rest of your narrative is just more of the same.....how partisan DC stuff transmits and how you echo it back to me.
Its water off a ducks back my friend.
To understand where the (anti-merit) identity politics weaponisation came from in its potency today (to agglomerate in federal overreach especially + DC-hollyweird blob mass broadcast) to spur current snapshot of right wing reactionary movement against it is something you need at least 3 - 4 solid leftie friends to begin with actually living alongside you. Yes LEFTIE friends.
It is only a leftie friend that can properly explain in detail the utter dilapidated disgraceful approach of the democrat DC blob towards them.....where you think I know the easy street verbiage from? Its a leftie friend that used it again and again.
You don't need to trust me, just look at the 1990s Bill Clinton voting results, state by state and area by area vs GOP back then. It was the era of the last common understanding of DC democrats with state/local democrats and their voters.
I am afraid the DC-media-hollyweird blob (heavily aligned to current "neo-dems" and vice versa) wont explain to you quite adequately what the Bush era was and the Obama era after it.
The blob after all take war crazy neo-cun nut Bill Kristol and makes him a super-great democrat liberal overnight in MSNBC, since he kissed enough asses and they kissed his ass enough in return. Then expects the US public to forget about it, just like how MSNBC killed phil donahue's show in lead up to iraq war....but now MSNBC is the absolute vanguard of the DC blob we got to abandon friends and our own memories for/over? Haha not a chance. Should one go to an alcoholic first thing to get abstinence advice? I think not.
20+ years the trad dem distanced away from coastal elite blob...my friend just one of many of these folks.......were not listened to. So much so they brought out bernie to be listened to and heard in 2016.
Bernie who couldn't argue himself out of a wet paper bag in the 1990s versus the democrats and was firmly kept outside, as the dems simply had the full 95% capture of the proletariat base in the US....by the time and work the dems had put in long term with local state by state working class folks.....and always careful to have non-racialised platform.....and focus on economic class problem.
i.e what was the nature of obama's 2nd tenure, things really started in 2012 (after the giant obamacare and other policy fails) regd identity politics weaponisation.
Michael brown, what obama reduced that crap to with his soapbox to racialise things for this new ivory tower model (to fracture society to weaken it to drive DC-democrat federal statism)....a media constantly covering for him and fawning over him because he ticks the boxes outwardly for them rather than the core inner stuff (that the working class especially were waking up to...."he's one of them!....forget the 08 promise....its not what you say, its what you DO" etc.).....and the eric holder stuff coming up w.r.t the cop acting well within reason....and how the DC blob tried to gaslight over all of this.....totally uncaring to what they had unleashed on the proletariat to add to existing problems already.
It is only then, a trad bernie bro leftie friend told me, can you understand WHY in 2016, Bernie started out responding to "open borders" as a "Koch brothers project" (i.e a right wing thing, which he had seen all through his political career up to that point....i.e cheap labour to undercut unions)......why this had broad appeal in the rust belt and forgotten/abandoned dems in general (w.r.t DC dem blob).
Why/how that was upset in short order by alinskyite dc-blob hillary dirty underhanded tactics, when clearly paid actors from some proto-BLM group race on stage, grab mic off bernie and start hollering over him over skin colour this and that....to sink his economic class and trad left argument.
Bernie could have been tough, but he cowered, retreated and ultimately got squelched by the DC blob, a fully beaten man and a husk now....and fully sub-servient to them....heres a couple holiday homes, change messaging to be anti-billionaire, from the old anti-millionaire one, since bernie becoming a millionaire.
These are just the summary points, I dont have time to get into hours of the rest of it about what happened with the blob acting as the blob does.
The trad leftie buddy still voted hillary that year, as anti-trump vote holding his nose for it. But he wont be voting 2024, just like he didnt vote in 2020.
But its clear to him which party is moving to make broad based coalition increasingly. It was funny, as much as he disagrees with Cenk Uyger on a ton of things....they pretty much had same reaction to the leftie-teamster union guy at the RNC just recently....that 100% a DNC convention would never allow that kind of speech.....its just too trad leftie for them haha.
i.e why would the GOP say no to what the DEM leaves behind (reliant on their fumes and vapour support from long ago yesteryear) in their continued windmill charge trysts and doubling down with the ivory tower?....and all spoiled brat and self hater and deeply anti american ideations involved in the intersectionality?
So if through it all, less federal govt size "sends back the dems to the states...at state by state level"....my trad leftie friend will be very receptive to that....finally compeuppance!...we can grapple with these squishes again etc...its time to fix this state issues before we promote you to DC. We arent going to hate our social conservative neighbour we live with and break bread with....cuz you sez so....those that actually hate us and ignore us and look over us....and take us for granted.
This is just one buddy of many others I have on the left. I dont even need to break into my centre and right wing buddies opinions on things to make the point I am making here.....since they are even further away from the DC blob mental illness.
The blob in the end is a peter pan spoiled brat complex driving it. You are free to check into its projection of fantasy....when you are either very wedded to it close by here.....or very far away and its notions is really all you have transmitted from the US of A.
But the US of A is ultimatley built on something else, you see that only when you have people you know and trust here. Its that simple.
Kipling describes it in a way in his 6 honest serving men....the importance of it being just 6 and HONEST....the importance of giving them a rest when needed because of the trust you build with maturity and experience.
To contrast with the young girl having millions of these all the time and over-exerting them in her innocent young age.
So grown ups staying infantile and deluded in todays world (and gravitating to leftist statist overreach simply to flex on other parts of the left they despise and then everyone else as well) is severely offputting. Their rejection of honesty and the value of trust.
The American people at large will continue to react to it, dont you worry about it....smooth things out and put them right back to where these utterly spoiled brats crawled out of, and the over-reactionaries from the right after that.
A dog is wagged by tail only so much...and only so long.