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I agree it’s incumbent on all of the left to reach out with an olive branch and beg the GOP to please stop hitting us.

 

Please, GOP voter, how can I convince you I’m not part of a Satan-worshipping cabal that drinks the blood of Gentile babies before trafficking them in underground pizza sex basements?

 

I’m voting first thing in the morning. I prefer the in-person experience.

 

I went to early voting last week. I was going to wait until Tuesday, but my wife has something after work, so we went ahead.
(Not that any of the votes I cast matter)

 

In person is the best. I'm usually first in line. Something about watching the final moments of set-up before the starting bell.

 

Most of our poll workers are about 80, so I figure it would be about like watching sausage getting made.

 

In the same article in which Frum expressed fear that Tea Party radicalization would marginalize the Republican party, more than a decade ago, he also argued that “a party must champion the values of the voters it already has”. He didn’t see what has by now become crystal clear: Trump and his radical outsiders do represent the values of Republican voters. In the end, the Tea Party has won after all.

That's accurate.

The quandary is how to address the issue.

On the one hand, the Democratic Party could change - not a ton, just some - to accommodate a few - not a ton - of these voters' worldviews. That'd be like the Democratic Party of, say, 1992.

On the other, progressives push for the kind of systemic change - in voting rules, in disbanding the electoral college, in getting rid of the 2 Senators per state structure - that guarantees certain - not all - GOP values get starved out from lack of victory.

I guess we'll see where it goes.

 

GOP values.

snerk

 

Eagerly awaiting Nimrata Randhawa's answer. Perhaps she should be deported.

(Do I really need the /s?)

 

Genuinely curious, Alma, how many votes do you think Democrats pick up from adopting your proposed strategy? Do you think there's a block of Republican voters that would switch due to concessions made by Democrats (or to use the Clinton-era term, triangulation) in 2022?

My own assumption is that the 1992-era GOP policies-based voter has either already switched to the Dems post-Trump, or is voting third-party, and that there aren't that many left to be swayed by such an approach.