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Originally Posted by D_Yeti_Esquire
I haven't seen anything significant yet though.
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And you won't either seeing as even Trump's own government said the election was secure, every election official in each state has said it was secure and even Trump's own lawyers when asked in court have said they really got nothing.
Its all just a narcissist trying to find a way to explain why he isn't the center of the universe. If you recall he primed the narrative pump in 2016 as well. Saying the election was rigged against him and setting up the story that if he lost it was because it was rigged.
Now there is a Hail Mary on the table of a coup by pretending there's enough smoke to say there's a fire then using that as an excuse to ignore the popular vote of a state and appoint Trump electors. But that route is fraught with numerous legal issues.
Still, the hope they have is that somehow they can get the Supreme Court to invalidate the election itself and turn it over to Trump. Which, if it actually happened, the civil unrest you've seen so far would look like a child's birthday party.
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Re: Republican Party at large - I think the biggest liklihood is going to be a la the Lincoln Project, the reformation of a third political party that either changes things or is reabsorbed after changing the overall narrative after it forces election losses for one or both parties.
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I hope so seeing as the Republican party functionally no longer exists. It's the Trump party now and it will never be able to unhook its wagon from Trump. But populism and bad faith politics seems to have infected right wing politics through out the world at the moment. Even up here in Canuckistan some of the Cons have been auditioning Trumpian style politics without much success so far.
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Originally Posted by D_Yeti_Esquire
Until there's something to drive the power away from the wing's there is no upside for either party to change course and they will continue to paint the other side as the wing (because that's who more and more gets the mic anyway).
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Well, the functional problem you have between the electoral college and gerrymandering is that the Republicans have an inbuilt advantage. They don't need to expand their voter base while Democrats do to overcome the deficit. The GOP need only appeal to its base and even when it loses its never by a large margin so there's no need to change course.
There isn't any need to compromise or concede policy wise either. They can just cross their arms and refuse to do anything like McConnell does and wait it out till the next election cycle.
Conversely, the Dems have to overcome the inherent disadvantage of a system where the worth of your vote depends entirely on where you live and the advantage goes to rural areas. Hence the Dems can win the popular vote by 3-5 million but still lose the election. Even though that makes zero sense in any modern capacity.
So the dems need both the progressive wing of their party and to court moderate swing voters. Who, and I will be incredibly blunt here, are some of the dumbest people alive on God's green earth.
In any other country the Dems would be two parties. Such as up here where we have a Liberal party and a further left progressive party (NDP).
Granted, by our political measure Dems are center right.
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