Even Trump's indictments haven't shattered the deadlock between the parties. Here's why
Even Trump's indictments haven't shattered the deadlock between the parties. Here's why
Former President Donald Trump’s mounting legal jeopardy is raising a stark political question: can anything break the sustained electoral stalemate that has left the country divided almost exactly in half between the Republican and Democratic coalitions?
The problem here is that the Republican party is shrinking, and has been for years. So I'm skeptical that it's really "deadlocked," no matter how much the media wants a horse race. Trump's support among Republicans is rock-solid, but his presence has caused a lot of people to leave the Republican party. The people left are the most extreme, the most hateful.
But that doesn't necessarily mean they have equity in numbers with Democrats.
People are leaving the Republican party in name, but 90% of them are still going to vote as conservatives (aka Republican), so really they're just letting the extremists control the primaries so the ones that "left" can pretend to be moderate while still voting for racists and indirectly supporting their hateful rhetoric.
Source: look at the fucking idiots like Joe Manchin, Lisa Murkowski, Liz Cheney, and Susan Collins. They can claim to be moderate all they want, but at the end of the day, they vote however the Republican leadership tells them to.
They don't need equity in numbers because our voting systems are explicitly designed to subvert the popular will.
I think it’d be much more lopsided if corporate news wasn’t such a disgusting insult to an informed populace. They still refuse to call him a liar, or note that he was found guilty of sexual assault. Much less point out that he used russian intelligence to violate the DNC and federal election law. Or that he obstructed justice by firing Comey, intimidated any number of witnesses, and oh yeah is utterly incompetent to handle that position.
Don’t you agree CNN? NBC? WaPo? NYT? Yeah. Her emails. Free airtime. We know how committed you are to reporting truth. Right Chuck Todd? Still both sides, isn’t it?