"The GOP is weird and crazy, a threat to democracy and your personal freedoms, and if I get elected, I promise to make sure they will be listened to by my administration" is a serious contender for the most confused message by either side in this election, and basically undermines everything the Democrats have been saying.
A large portion of the population sees the GOP as fundamentally unfit to govern right now, and that part of the population is correct.
The way to bring back a functioning two-party system is to keep beating the GOP in elections by having a better, ultimately more popular agenda, pressuring the GOP to adapt or perish.
The conservatives need to re-learn co-operation and the value of appeasing others, but they will never start doing that if the Dems want to meet them halfway regardless of how deep to the far-right the conservatives go. That just encourages conservatives to keep going further to the right.
Last edited by Itse; 10-13-2024 at 07:33 AM.
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