Thump
Well-Known Member
In terms of the presidency, the electoral map is shrinking for the Republican Party.
They have now lost the popular vote in 8 out of the last 9 election cycles.
George W. Bush won the popular vote and electoral college in 2004, but wouldn't have been in place to run for re-election had a conservative majority on the Supreme Court not intervened on his behalf in 2000. Pretty soon their electoral college outcomes will be no different from those underperforming popular vote numbers.
Their map is not looking good.
Check out the 2004 map.
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Today Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado are all blue states with the trifecta of having a Democratic governor, two Democratic senators, and Democratic majorities in their state legislatures. Arizona went blue for the first time since 1996 and now has two Democratic senators. On the other side of the country, Virginia didn't bother with entering a purple state phase and began voting Democrat in 2008 and has not looked back.
The Republican Party needs to either go away and die or create a version of itself that would be unrecognizable to what we understand it to be under Trump and McConnell.
What used to be the Republican party died in 2016, but that doesn't mean the people who called themselves Republicans will go away.
What's going to happen is a political strategy called "entryism" (joining a party or group in order to change it from within) It's been happening quite steadily since Trump took office. Northern, educated, fiscal conservatives saw Trump as a disaster for their flavor of Republican politics, so they abandoned the new republican party and have instead infiltrated the Democratic party (or at least the center and the center-right wing of the Democratic party.)
Did you ever notice how many center-left and right-leaning Democrats there are on cable news? Would it surprise you to know how many "former" Republicans work at "liberal" news organizations like CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times? Did you ever notice how cozy the Democratic party is with Wall Street? Did you ever notice how much CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times hate Bernie Sanders, AOC, and all progressives?
The new fight is going to be "the left" vs. the very left vs. the cult of Trump.











