Quote (Thor123422 @ Nov 22 2020 02:08pm)
This is really interesting.
On the left there's a civil war in the Democratic party, where you have Bernie, AOC, Omar, etc. fighting for left-wing economics that the entire rest of the world has shown are amazing successes, and the corporatists like Pelosi and Biden will only barely pay lip service to (Biden is already walking back his student loan promises. Shocker). Meanwhile they are both pretty cordial and follow norms.
On the right there's a civil war in the Republican party, where you have Trump and his sycophants against Mitch McConnel and the establishment. The right though agrees on pretty much all policy, it's just that the establishment plays coy about their dogwhistles and Trump just says the unsaid things out loud for all to hear.
One side has a fight on policy and disagrees on decorum, the other side agrees on policy and is fighting over decorum.
I don't think I would characterize it like that. I agree that there's a moderate/radical divide in the Democratic party but I don't think it's that simple. The Congressional Black Caucus, for example, are extremely establishment but I certainly wouldn't describe them as corporatist. There are some extremely liberal Democrats who are also establishment so I think it's more of a spectrum in terms of ideology. It seems to me that there's a small, insurgent portion of the Democratic party but I don't think the divide is as deep as people make it out to be.
The GOP is a very odd coalition at the moment and seem to only work well as an opposition party. They don't really have any ideas for the problems we face. I'd really only trust the GOP establishment on foreign policy.