re: #182 Big Beautiful Door

Actually we have had long stretches of one party rule, but they were both in the 19th century, except for FDR/Truman. However that stretch ended because Ike decided to run as a Republican. If he had decided to run as a Democrat, it would’ve been a seven election run.

With hindsight, I think that was a big mistake by Ike. The Republicans hadn’t gone through the reforms they needed to make after the Great Depression, and the result was a veneer of civilization (e.g., Eisenhower Republicans) over the underlying John Birch society rot. That veneer of civilization has by now been completely discarded.