The biggest current problem for this next generation is the failure to get beyond Trump’s populist success in selling anger and grievance to excite online donations and right-wing talk shows.

GOP primary voters told a CBS poll last month that their top priority in a presidential candidate is someone to “challenge woke ideas,” among Democrats. An unnamed candidate who makes “liberals angry,” was not far behind with 57 percent support.

  • @YoBuckStopsHereOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    It’s usually the Democrats are in chaos! The difference here is that the GOP actually is divided due to the ‘Freedom Caucus’ causing a Civil War in the GOP. Traditionally this leads to a fracture, a third party, and a decline in power. See the Whig Party for examples.

    • @hoshi711English
      3•1 year ago

      The dream scenario is the gop fracture kills off the republican party and the Democratic party splits in classic conservative democratic part and ‘radical’ left democratic party to fill the void.

      It won’t happen. But I can dream