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?
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.