Since I started following US politics in the 1990s, 1 simple heuristic has been the most reliable guide: the GOP, at every juncture or decision point, will do/say/be the worst possible thing. The bulk of analytical errors in punditry trace to ignoring or doubting that heuristic.https://twitter.com/ATVSPoseur/status/1223317762061340674 …
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Last, last, last thing: worth remembering that people who DO accurately diagnose the GOP have consistently been marginalized as "partisan extremists." Being correct over & over & over again has done approximately nothing to diminish this dynamic; it is still operative.
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One episode that illustrates my point: the GOP's famous post-2012-election "autopsy." It lamented an increasingly old, white party & recommended reaching out to minorities, women, & young people -- and, specifically, softening on immigration.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/what-you-need-to-read-in-the-rnc-election-autopsy-report/274112/ …
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Those of us with an appropriately dismal view of the GOP looked at those recommendations & immediately concluded they were fanciful nonsense, that there was too much gathered momentum toward white identity politics for elites to be able to engineer a course correction.
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But it was *exactly* what VSPs & mainstream pundits wanted to hear, exactly the GOP they'd been imagining for so long, so they heralded it as a turning point. We know how that turned out: the dirty hippies were correct, the VSPs biffed it again, & no one learned anything.
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Regarding the WA GOP, there was also this:https://thinkprogress.org/washington-state-gop-cuts-pay-for-chair-position-just-before-a-woman-steps-in-94a275b875ee/ …
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[chef kiss]
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I've been watching West Wing again. Love the show, but it's sad now
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Really? We tried to go back & watch it with the kids & found the ubiquitous sexism & mansplaining unbearable. The kids themselves rebelled and refused to keep watching -- their eyes were in permanent roll.
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*points to the chalkboard.* Judith N. Shklar had an opinion (one I think it is true) that we combine cruelty and hypocrisy in order to prevent "negation." Thus when more and more conservative ideals are revealed to bullshit we will see the Republican party turn more and more...pic.twitter.com/Og0zZsZVnD
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into cruelty in order to preserve the coalition. In order to preserve their power. The Republicans are "Unified in Zeal" much like the Spaniards of the 1500s forced the New World to convert to Christianity or Perish. Were those Spaniards living up to the ideals of Christ...
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