When people talk about how badly the Democrats were shellacked in the Obama years they are missing the fact that this was a *sorting* process, where conservative Ds and liberal Rs were getting wiped off the map The Ds lost seats as part of the process of rapidly moving lefthttps://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1356299555919196160 …
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All this harking back to "Remember when Democrats were popular because they were a true solidly leftist party" is a fairytale - the time in US history when that has been closest to being true is, in fact, right now
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The golden era people like this are talking about doesn't exist if you go back in time, not even if you go all the way back to FDR, when the South was packed with Democrats who were single-issue voters on the topic of maintaining Jim Crow
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oh, so _that's_ why i remember reading about "the house of cards" aging badly because of "blue dog democrats", the kind its main character was, going extinct
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(that was before it aged even worse because of the actor)
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