12-19-2018, 10:31 AM
All in all, I see the hard-line Red side losing. I shall soon have a post about polling of approval of the President that expresses a cause for the Republicans losing the House majority and several Governorships in 2018 and likely further losses in 2020. Conservatism used to imply moderation, personal responsibility, and national loyalty; it will imply such again -- but probably a few years into the upcoming 1T. Conservatism has become a euphemism for economic polarization, irresponsibility of people who have all the advantages, contempt for intellectual progress, and politics best described as win-at-all-costs, even fascism.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.