re: #105 Renaissance_Man

I don’t see why you think they will lose elections.

Because it will hurt their constituents, badly, individually, and personally. Most of Republican orthodoxy hurts someone else, or has effects indirect enough that it doesn’t matter. Hate is a luxury good, and if the Gooper masses don’t feel they have the luxury they might listen to reason for a cycle.

The history of politics in America is mostly a history of backlashes, layered on long term changes.