RE: Trump and Pence are not the only reasons to be sad
December 1, 2016 at 11:36 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2016 at 11:49 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(November 23, 2016 at 11:42 am)Tiberius Wrote: However for me, his presidency will be forever darkened by the NSA revelations and his drone strikes, among other things.
His expansion of the Security State® soured me on him.
(November 23, 2016 at 1:48 pm)dyresand Wrote: Simply put this election just destroyed the democratic party most young people after this election probably won't vote democrat anymore. Granted yes Hillary won the popular vote but your vote doesn't matter because well electoral votes are the only ones that truly matter.
Not at all. The fissures inside the Republican party will only be highlighted by the executive/congressional tensions, I think; that's how the Republicans will work to constrain Trump, or channelize him, and the tensions brought about by that will only further the divides that have been evident since the rise of the Tea Partiers.
The Dems are sitting much better in terms of unity. It's true that their leadership needs to give deep thought to strategy and mission in order to drive up turnout -- but inside the Dems, the philosophical divide is much more bridgeable. The Republicans won this election because Trump appealed to working-class whites ... but they're still going to be paying Wall Street and not Main Street. Those voters who voted for change will split soon as they see that the new reaming is the same as the old reaming.
In short, the Republicans are more the fractious coalition, I think.
