(January 12, 2021 at 11:27 pm)Fireball Wrote: Secession is a non-starter. The big cities are blue and the "outback" is red. Go state by state, and in the end, it's all bluish purple. If the southeast was solid red, there might be a chance, but that will never be the case, and the nation is going blue, kicking and screaming by the white supremacists notwithstanding.
The purpose of a political party is to mold its policies so that it captures more than 50% of the electorate.
In a two party system, you can't have the nation going either blue or red, long-term. The losing party will re-calibrate, and as soon as the ruling party does something stupid, they are out.
The problem with the Republicans is that they are betting on a diminishing demographic. They either have to subvert democracy to keep that demographic relevant politically, or they have to change. So far, they have bet on the first one.
