I live in Texas but I’m seeing these Georgia results and I’m honestly shocked at how far left the south has shifted. I live in Texas which is red for now but I feel it will flip. I do think think a good portion of this has to do with people moving to red states. I’ll never understand people who move from blue states, complain about high taxes, and then vote for the same policies. Doesn’t help either that public schools are propaganda factories.
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The right lost pop culture and then the tea party made it a kind of race to the bottom.
The Tea Party was nothing but a necessary reaction to Obama.
Everything went off the rails in 2012 when Obama got his second term.
The nation's decline massively accelerated under Obama's second term.
Don't blame the reaction for the core problem.
The long march through the institutions ensured that the left has control of all the major institutions. How can the right ever hope to win pop culture without dismantling the leftist stronghold on the institutions?
This article on the very topic came out today. Not looking good for stoicism - https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/4/establishment-institutions-turning-conservatives-i/
Note the word "SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION".
As someone who had the misfortune of working for the Republican Party during the Tea Party wave, I think they were largely destructive. The candidates they put forward were motivated by blind, righteous indignation toward the establishment, which is fine, provided you have some philosophical underpinnings to offer an intelligent alternative. They didn't. So, a lot of actually good Republicans got primaried by nutjobs, who in turn lost their seats to Democrats two years later.
I'm totally for tossing out the establishment, it clearly isn't working. I'd love to see everyone who voted for the stimulus to get primaried ASAP, but once again, we need viable alternatives rather than blind rage. All that energy was misspent, and I think the same energy exists today, so we should be more thoughtful about what we do with it.
Interesting perspective you bring up.
There will be a lot of rage this time as well.
Now we have MAGA/America First with the philosophy of Trump behind it.
I hope this time the movement can focus its energy in productive ways for the country.
See, the problem imo is that you’re giving the Right a free pass for giving you Mitt Romney’s and Marco Rubios when we needed more Rand Paul’s
I despise Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio.
I am not giving them or any Bushian GOP establishment rat a free pass.
Romney and Rubio are both establishment GOP neocons not Tea Party and the neocon wing are all globalist war mongering filth.
I even called out neo con Ben Shapiro on this site just a little while ago.
You need to understand the Trump MAGA movement was born out of the Tea Party.
I never saw the Tea Party calling men in dresses women. I never saw the Tea Party pushing critical race theory.
I never saw the Tea Party pushing marxism. All of that is coming from the radical left.
Insane to blame any of that on the Tea Party.
We are where we are now thanks to the neoliberal Democrat establishment adopting radical leftist ideas while the neocon GOP eetablishment did nothing to stop them and even fought vehemently to undermine Trump from within the party.
The sad truth is that the Tea Party was co-opted by special interests that neutered the original message of the Tea Party. Rather than tax cuts coming from the strict management of government spending, the Tea Party’s elected politicians merely pushed for tax cuts (particularly for the wealthy) while ignoring uncontrolled spending completely.