Given that half his party is the swamp, and that the democrats are almost completely defined by the swamp, this is not a shock. Non-swamp democrat figures get run out of town on a rail. Tulsi Gabbard, for instance. Look at what they did to her. Bernie has been hammered twice. Even though he's a fuzzy headed socialist dipshit, he's at least not quite as crooked as Clinton Inc. or Biden Inc. or Obama Inc. So he's robbed twice by DNC machinations.
Then there is the bureaucracy that's penning deep state resistance op eds in the NYT.
DC is a system. It didn't develop overnight and it won't die overnight, either. But if you want to kill it you have to at least start making it bleed...and some of Trump's economic policies are doing precisely that. Thankfully. There's a reason why the Chamber of Commerce endorsed Biden and billionaires are lining up to give to his campaign.
That's happening. This isn't really a left vs. right argument anymore, it's an argument between the elites and everybody else. Which is why there are so many well funded people finding new and interesting theories on how not supporting them is white supremacy and similar rot. Anything to distract from a core realignment of the body politic to deal with the realization that we've been getting sold out since the end of WWII.I wish the Center (yeah, I'm going to start calling the other 90% of us "the Center", no party affiliation, just Americans.), would just come together and put an end to our current two party political fiasco
It's funny if you go back and read the coverage of Reagan in the press vs. Trump now. It's very, very similar. Reagan's election would be the rebirth of the KKK in America according to Washington Post columnists at the time. It would produce nuclear holocaust. It would destroy the economy. Etc. Yet the opposite of all those things actually took place.
Republican and Democrat aren't really the "sides" anymore.
There are Republicans who are on the side of the non-elites. Then there are Republicans who are elitist shitbags. The fact that someone has an R in front of their name means jack shit, as we can see from the various Never Trumper "conservatives" who only have currency on the elitist side of the question while 95% of the people who voted for Trump are happy with what he's doing...even if not always happy with the way he's doing it.
I don't see the elitists putting the genie back in the bottle again. Some things are fundamentally changing and wedge issues are less wedge-y than before because people of all stripes and persuasions are starting to figure out that the real enemy isn't that group of people over there, it's the bastards running the show that are the real enemy.
Look at Richmond early this year. A bunch of people from all areas of the supposed political spectrum were armed to the teeth and gathered in the tens of thousands...where they fellowshipped and enjoyed one another's company. All the while looking at the locked down state house where most of the politicians had fled and realizing that maybe the enemy isn't the guy standing in front of them. Maybe the real enemy is the gutless cowards who wouldn't face their own constituents after trying to seize their rights by force.
And all the while these shitweasels are being guarded by police...the very same police they've called racist oppressors. So maybe figuring out who the real enemy is is becoming easier and easier all the time.
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