Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 3 2020 08:05am)
Good ideas like turning illegal border crossings into a petty offense or free abortions for transgender women? :lol:
Regarding the premise of your thought experiment: the natural advantage of the GOP in the Senate is so big that there exist no measures the Democrats could enact that would prevent them from losing the Senate in 2022, or 2024 at the latest. (In 2024, the extremely GOP-favorable Senate map is up again.) You cant gerrymander Senate seats, and changing the seat allocation in the Senate would require supermajorities in the Senate itself which are completely out of reach for Democrats, no matter what.
Oh yeah, one more thing: Trump himself has already killed the old GOP, the GOP of the Romneys, Ryans, Bushes and McCains, and resurrected it with new ideas. You just dont like their new ideas (populist nationalism).
Well, due to demographic changes and retirements, it's possible for the Dems to dominate the Senate by 2022. Right now, I think we can safely say that the Dems will gain 1 seat in 2020 (McSally and Gardner losing for the GOP and Jones losing for the Dems). Tillis and Collins are tossups in the Senate which would give the Dems the majority if they win both the presidency and those 2 seats. The real pain occurs if the GOP loses a seat in Georgia and Montana in 2020. That makes 2022 REALLY hard for the GOP. Ultimately, barring realignment, I think the Dem strategy should be to focus on winning at the state level, get independent redistricting done in states like NC, FL, GA, TX, etc.
I agree that the old GOP is dead which is what made people like me homeless. As I've said before, the GOP should be the party of elitists and experts who know how to make tough decisions. They should be the party of hard work and conservative values. Unfortunately, they decided to go down another path. I actually don't mind nationalism when it unifies the country. Polarizing nationalism is crippling and that's what we have now.
Quote (Ghot @ May 3 2020 09:48am)
No divisive ideas there. :/
What's wrong with being divisive towards the GOP and their idiot voters?
This post was edited by thundercock on May 3 2020 11:52am