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[THREAD] Populism is a damnable thing. It's akin to a human in their personal life saying, "I'm pissed off. F*ck it. I'm going to go snort coke, or take off from work w/out telling anyone, or have an extra-marital fling, consequences be damned." Frankly, we've all thrown...(1/7)
our hands up and thrown caution to the wind at some point in our lives, in one way or another.
That's what's happening to the GOP now. They have no future plans. They are bleeding sane members by the thousands, maybe millions...(2/7)
That's what's happening to the GOP now. They have no future plans. They are bleeding sane members by the thousands, maybe millions...(2/7)
...They've relied for years on a cobbled-together coalition of evangelical Christians, Wall Streeters & racists. Their demographics have been whites who are diminishing in numbers in proportion to the general population, demonstrating that they have lost voting power...(3/7)
The party is ripe for an emotional takeover. It has no where else to turn. It can't rely on reason and fact and principle because it has none. It's denied climate science and pandemic safety and logical tax policy. It caters to the fringe. The people left (still a sizable...(4/7)
...but dwindling chunk of the population) have only grievance left. They turn to fanciful & ignorant theories in which to cry their aggrieved tears. It's a damn-everyone-and-everything-I-was-taught-about-American-values moment. Caution to the wind. Desperation writ large...(5/7)
Their leaders know that, to have any political future, they must cater to this majority voice of their now-diminished party. Or leave. Only a few have taken that choice...the choice to deep-six their political aspirations...(6/7)
...There is no principle left. It's only doom and delusion. Let's hope they don't have enough actionable heft to take the country down with them. (7/7)
