One of the things I never did understand about politics was why Obama continued the Bush administration's attempts to ratchet up fear in airports and elsewhere. To me this seems like something that obviously feeds Republicanism. How did it help Obama?
How does the fear-based expansion of state power help Democrats? Or Obama? It just promoted a Republican majority and then President. Why would they trade off an opportunity to do some nice evil against a political *loss* for themselves?
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1/2 I think that you're still assuming that pre-Trump Republicans and Democrats were radically different. Both were two sides of the same neoliberal coin with the roughly similar donors. In other words, it doesn't matter who is in control so long as the donors are happy.
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2/2 To answer more directly, however: expansion of state power by any means helps the Democrats by making it seem as if the government is always there to help and protect. The Republican take over was an expected result that absent Trump would still feed the same interests.
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