RedKing, I'm surprised how little empathy you seem to have for Republicans given that you're behaving exactly the same way as them except on the other side. You're railing on in literally exactly the same way as Republicans that want to repeal Obama's laws just because Obama made them.
Recognizing your enemy has effective methods doesn't create empathy. For years, whenever Republicans lost, they didn't trend to the center, they doubled-down on the crazy. And it finally paid off, bigly.
When Democrats lose, they engage in a bunch of namby-pamby "we need to reach across the aisle and connect with uneducated straight white blue-collar males" talk. They trend to the center (i.e. rightward). When both parties continually trend rightwards, that leaves a whole lot of the populace dissatisfied.
Democrats need to double-down on their own brand of crazy, the Bernies, the Warrens, etc.
That, or finally complete the divorce between the progressive wing and the neoliberal wing. Maybe the neoliberals can merge with the disaffected moderate Republicans.
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@Arx:
I'm so beyond worrying about false equivalencies. I actually agree with McTraveller that I'd prefer to see this done peacefully. I've also been alive long enough to recognize that it's never going to happen peacefully. The entire trajectory of the US for my 42-year lifespan has been one of ever-accelerating decline into hypercapitalism and income disparity that would make feudal kings envious. The longer it goes on, the less likelihood that it gets reversed at anything other than the point of a pitchfork, metaphorically speaking.