Especially in an age of social media where it’s easier for a small number of voices to be heard broadly, it’s easier to gamble on the chance of defeating your political opponents than to acquiesce to selling out parts of your coalition.
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Yes but the point is while the political power of conservatives is a fact, the political and social power of the people conservatives want to hurt is ALSO a fact. So any compromise has to be acceptable to both, not just a capitulation to conservatives for the sake of order.
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Well. I personally think “the wall,” stupid as it is, is not a bad compromise bc it is a mostly-symbolic response to a purely symbolic complaint. We can have the Statue of Liberty in the north for liberals and the Wall in the south for conservatives, lol.
End of conversation
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I think you could sell symbolic gestures. I don’t know what substantive policy aim of conservatives doesn’t pragmatically involve people dying, families torn apart, etc., which is generally not acceptable to liberals.
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