There is one party that's rigidly ideologically committed to incredibly unpopular policies, and it's not the Democrats.

I still haven't seen a good explanation for how Jones loses if Spanperger wins by a big a margin as it's looking like she will. The level of ticket-splitting required to make that happen just seems extremely unlikely, you know?

We talk a lot about the collapse of trust in institutions in America like it's something that just happened to them out of the blue. But I wonder if CEOs, university presidents, law firm heads, etc., realize what they've done in less than a year of Trump 2.0?

The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.

Go look for them now.

What I wonder is, where do they go from here? The plan was to realize Stephen Miller's wildest anti-immigrant fantasies, let Trump enjoy his corruption orgies, let Rubio invade Venezuela, and... then what? Is there really anything in their bag of policy tricks *other* than sticks?

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

So true. They want more than anything to fight on culture wars forever; but once all the Great Society/ACA benefits start turning off, politics becomes about the material again.

What are those from?