10-29-2020, 12:21 AM
Texas is going blue and is the future of the Democratic party. When it goes blue its an earthquake, Democrat party officially becomes the "keep Texas blue party" and will move heaven and earth to do it.
And when Texas goes blue, the Republican party will IMMEDIATELY become the party of Electoral College abolition.
If you doubt me, pull up the Texas election results in 2012 and 2016 and take a good long look.
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To the topic, the degree of overlap between this era and the gilded age I just cant get out of my head. There are 1896 comparisons, Roosevelt bull moose comparisons, pandemic comparisons, yellow journalism comparisons....in the end I think this is the 1896 election. Not an often thought of election (though KARL ROVE wrote an amazing book on it explaining why history is remembering its importance wrong), but politics post-Lincoln was totally frozen and Mckinley in 1896 broke the frozen/polarized nature and basically "won" American politics until FDR.
And when Texas goes blue, the Republican party will IMMEDIATELY become the party of Electoral College abolition.
If you doubt me, pull up the Texas election results in 2012 and 2016 and take a good long look.
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To the topic, the degree of overlap between this era and the gilded age I just cant get out of my head. There are 1896 comparisons, Roosevelt bull moose comparisons, pandemic comparisons, yellow journalism comparisons....in the end I think this is the 1896 election. Not an often thought of election (though KARL ROVE wrote an amazing book on it explaining why history is remembering its importance wrong), but politics post-Lincoln was totally frozen and Mckinley in 1896 broke the frozen/polarized nature and basically "won" American politics until FDR.