When you lose even Tucker Carlson, you know you've gone off the cliff...
Quote (Thor123422 @ 22 Nov 2020 23:08)
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.
That's not actually true. Chamber of commerce type Republicans want more immigration and free trade, the Trump wing wants less of both. On the flip side, the trumpy working-class populists dont really care about fiscal conservatism. They are not ideologically opposed to the mommy states, as long as it nurtures them and not smug coastal elites
or the brownies. Both of these factions dont care that much about abortion or Christian values, but go along with this stuff because they need the votes of evangelicals.
Democrats are certainly more deeply divided on policy than the GOP, but saying that the latter is unified on pretty much all policy is very inaccurate.