re: #395 WindUpBird

Not the Right. The small, motivate core base that volunteers and wins elections. The average voter is one thing, the problem is you need motivated True Believers at the core to win the contest. And on the GOp, the core true believers that phonebank and fundraise are becoming infected with radicalism.

I keep saying over and over again, the Right needs to get rid of these people. They’re not a large part of the party, but they’re a very dangerous small core of the party that can have a disproportionate amount of influence if they are allowed to persist. Like cancer. It doesn’t take much to kill you. it just needs to be in the right place.

I want to talk about STRATEGY. ELECTIONS. MACHINERY. INFLUENCE.

Not tribalism.

Disagree (surprise). The money comes from the base. Elections are won in the middle. Hence pandering in the primaries and a sudden middle of the road epiphany in the general.

Great system really. Brooks not the extremes of either side.