The huge defeat in Kansas and Sarah Palin losing in Alaska; is it over for them? Will the liberal battle cry be, "Remember Roe!"?

Is SYFY done making silly movies like Sharknado?

(September 3, 2022 at 7:51 am)Tomato Wrote: Is SYFY done making silly movies like Sharknado?

Probably not, but, I am talking about winning elections, where 51% of the vote gives 100% of the power.

Palin was an interesting case. A sort of transitional form between neoconservatism and magatism.

As with George McGovern, it is, of course, not enough to win the nomination. Will the Evangelicals decide to stay home this November, knowing that Roe is destined to be codified into federal law?

Palin does seem to be a natural-born loser.

But conservative Republicanism is probably long dead, hence gerrymandering.

I'm hoping for a day (and soon) where even gerrymandering doesn't get the conservative contingent offices. Falling into bed with evangelicals and fascists was certainly a mistake.

Given the changing demographics and culture in the country, the Republican base was shrinking. In order to remain relevant, they could do one of two things. They could expand their base by becoming more moderate, or they could increase the participation level of their constituents by appealing to the more extreme elements in their base and reducing compromise and bipartisan concessions. They chose the latter. I think that's a dead-end strategy, but one way or another, Republicanism as we knew it was doomed to extinction. It's just a question of whether they can use authoritarian policies to keep them relevant and sufficiently powerful to sustain the party. I think it's just a matter of time, but the drama has many years before it finally plays out. The current shift rightward has been going on for over 30 years and things are still not much different from 30 years ago. It will take a long time unless they suffer catastrophic reversals. Failing to recapture the senate in 2022 and the president in 2024 could go a long way along the path to irrelevancy. The key battlegrounds, however, are in the states, not the federal government. Republicans are much better off at the state level than nationally.

With SCOTUS on their side, it will probably take several more decades before all the current bloc of conservative judges are dead and are replaced by liberals or moderates. Until then, America will be more or less two separate countries.

IMHO it kinda all depends on who has children.