I think the right's MO moving forward will be to bend instead of breaking and let the left be self destructive. Roy Moore gave them a bitter taste of tea party 2.0, but today Trump is seizing the high ground on child separation and throwing the ball into the democrat's court while the left has produced a real cavalcade of violent extremism and bad optics. Just in 24 hours we've got the secret service looking at jane fonda's brother for threatening to kidnap barron, snarling socialists harassing kirstjen nielsen at a mexican restaurant and a bunch of lower profile nutters making death threats.

Provoking the extremists and ignoring the legit criticisms is a perfectly rational strategy to drive a wedge and win over the moderates. The SJWs are the best thing to happen to the republican party in 20 years
I mean, how else would we arrive at south park-esque self-parody



This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 20 2018 11:16am

i don't think i've ever rolled my eyes harder than when i read that bolded headline this morning.... idiotic tweet, idiotic to take it seriously.

but as to that ad, i fucking love it. and i think most centrists see it as a blurred line between parody, hyperbole, and truth. the rollout on this issue cements the dumpsterfire reality for me. just a complete bungling.

as to the SJWs being the best thing for the GOP, i quite agree. i just wish less posters would use campaign tactics in a discussion forum as it does tend to get in the way of discussion.

Crying for their moms and their aunts after being separated at very young ages?

and the cult videos of footage that the government controls of the "summer camps" are not manipulative?

Democrats voted not to pass a resolution. Where is your fake moral outrage?

You either didn't read the post you quoted or lack the ability to comprehend what you read

"if you don't like the laws, change the laws" - said they, in control of the both legislatures and the executive branches.

Uhh... this has been the strategy since Trump got into office.

t. Man who doesn't understand the difference between majority and supermajority

*yawn*

-man who doesn't understand reading

The republican's don't by-and-large want to change the law. But if they did they'd only need to sway a small number.

Whereas the democrats, who seemingly really want to change the law, don't have any majority control. And can be vetoed indefinitely like Obama did with those empty gesture Obamacare repeals they passed for years under the opposition party.

tl;dr, the democrats have a massive uphill battle even if they want to change the law, for the GOP its simple. the democrats support this law change afterall, and would be easily swayed to at least a vanilla bill like Cruz put up.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Jun 20 2018 11:42am