re: #368 EPR-radar

My main question about GOP reform is whether it is even possible.

The GOP exists to funnel money to the billionaires. But that hasn’t been a vote getter for a long time, which is why the GOP gets its votes from a big tent of resentful deplorables that can be reliably activated on various single issue grudges using simplistic propaganda.

The GOP is likely nothing without its hate. E.g., Schultz’s clinically interesting favorability (i.e., flatline, DOA) suggests that an agenda of being civilized on social issues and nice to the billionaires is a total non-starter for both left and right.

So how does the GOP move away from a formula of providing hate to get votes?

What I really think needs to happen is a sane center-right needs to emerge but that’s only going to happen is the GOP is shown that the bigotry it’s operated under for the past 50 years since Nixon began the Southern Strategy is a loser. It’s worked for them. The best we can unfortunately hope for now is just beating them into submission.