Why aren't the Republicans working to get him out before he craters their chance at the presidency for decades to come?
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The standard-bearer for unelectable candidates who were elected anyway will likely always be Donald Trump. Trump was caught admitting to sexual assault on tape and openly insulted almost every conceivable demographic, from Mexicans to menstruating women to POWs to the disabled; he even pulled out a half-baked open-mic-night version of a Chinese accent. And still won.
Gianforte, Trump and Grimm are not exceptions. They're the rule in modern America, which in recent years has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to vote for just about anybody not currently under indictment for serial murder, so long as that person is not a Democrat.
The list of winners includes Tennessee congressman Scott Desjarlais, a would-be "family values" advocate. Desjarlais, a self-styled pious abortion opponent, was busted sleeping with his patients and even urging a mistress to get an abortion. He still won his last race in Bible country by 30 points.
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The early spin on the Gianforte election is that the Democrats never had a chance in Montana because of corporate cash, as outside groups are said to have "drowned" opponent Rob Quist in PAC money. There are corresponding complaints that national Democrats didn't do enough to back Quist.
A lot of these things are true. America is obviously a deeply racist and paranoid country. Gerrymandering is a serious problem. Unscrupulous, truth-averse right-wing media has indeed spent decades bending the brains of huge pluralities of voters, particularly the elderly. And Republicans have often, but not always, had fundraising advantages in key races.
But the explanations themselves speak to a larger problem. The unspoken subtext of a lot of the Democrats' excuse-making is their growing belief that the situation is hopeless – and not just because of fixable institutional factors like gerrymandering, but because we simply have a bad/irredeemable electorate that can never be reached.
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Things are so polarized now that, as Georgia State professor Jennifer McCoy put it on NPR this spring, each side views the other not as fellow citizens with whom they happen to disagree, but as a "threatening enemy to be vanquished."
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People need a reason to be excited by politics, and not just disgusted with the other side. Until the Democrats figure that out, these improbable losses will keep piling up.
Why aren't the Republicans working to get him out before he craters their chance at the presidency for decades to come?
People have incredibly short memories - Nixon is agreed upon as being one of the worst Presidents in modern history, if not the worst. After Watergate and the entire scandal surrounding him, the best that the Democrats could muster was four years of Carter before Reagan/Bush were in power for 12 years. Politics is more, what have you done for me lately - or I suppose what are you promising me now, than anything else.
I almost think people like Matt are intentionally being dishonest about how Dems shouldn't assume a blue wave, because he worries people will take their pedal off the gas so to speak.
The truth is somewhere in the middle, its estimate that the 3 states that helped Trump win were roughly 90,000 votes that made the difference, not forgetting Hillary won the popular vote by over 3 million votes, that, and the fact she made many mistakes in her campaign and was not very likable (fairly or unfairly); I think we will see if this administration keeps going with this chaos, the budget and the health care bill will be enough to devastate them in the mid terms.
The democrats will have a feeding frenzy of ADs to help them turn congress and possibly the senate
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I was listening to Vox's the Weeds podcast and I think they made the point that there are 120 Republican House districts that are less Republican than the Montana at-large seat, and where the sitting Republican voted for ACHA.
It was Fox News that pushed so hard on the Lewinsky garbage. It was Fox News that canonized and built up the mythology around Ronald Reagan. It was Fox News that gave us "President" George W. Bush. It was Fox News that gave us yellow cake and beat the drums of war the loudest to get us into Iraq. It was Fox News that gave us the rebirth and rebranding of the John Birch Society in the Tea Party. It was Fox News that gave platforms to lunatics like Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. It was Fox News that gave us The War on Christmas for Christs sake.
Fox News just keeps pushing things a little further into the deep end of insanity.
Honest question: What do you not like about Reagan?
Honest question: What do you not like about Reagan?
1. Most corrupt administration in history: 138 administration officials investigated, indicted or convicted of corruption charges. Most of them never went to trial because they were pardoned https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reag...ation_scandals
2. Supplied significant arms and/or financial support to: Saddam Hussein (including logistics used to kill 500 Kurds with chemical weapons), Osama Bin Laden, Iran, and Nicaraguan Contras
3. Awful economic policies: tripled the debt in 8 years, raised unemployment, destroyed the savings and loan small business
4. Racist dogwhistle language to suggest African Americans were abusing the welfare system (made up fake stories about "Young bucks" and "welfare queens")
5. Supported apartheid and vetoed a bill aiming at using sanctions to force South Africa to end Apartheid
