The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-13-2021, 10:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Even if we get past our racial divide, to the extent that racism/xenophobia no longer dominate a major political party, as it now dominates the Republicans under Trump, we still will face the neo-liberal divide. The earlier Republican extremism of Reagan will still need to be overcome before we can get back to progress after 40 years of regression and decline. We have sunk so far now, that more than one ideology or prejudice needs to be overcome before sanity is restored to the USA.

No doubt, however, that getting past the first racist hurdle, however, will help us get past the second neo-liberal one, since there is some overlap between them.

Confirmed.  The unraveling Republican Party was one of both elitism and racism.  There seems to be a three way fight pending between Trump and the racists, McConnell and the elitists, and the Lincoln Project and the true conservatives.  McConnell chose to let the racists live on in order to avoid primary challenges to some of his elitist members of congress.  Yet, he wants Trump and his followers to fade.

I would like to see the true conservatives come out on top eventually, but right now they are also rans.  In the meantime the three factions of the Republicans hopefully won't challenge a Democratic push to at last solve problems again.  I also see Trump's big lies as spoiling after enough years are passed.  Obama wasn't born in the US?  Mexico will pay for the wall?  COVID was a hoax?  By the time 2022 and 2024 roll around, the lie that there was voter fraud in 2020 will have expired too and McConnell will find he bought into a loyalty to Trump which has turned sour.