I think you still need these clueless fucks to be on your side. MAGA types are not the majority of the party yet. There are tons of people as smoothbrained as Ben who are "generally" conservative but aren't paying attention.
And those people will be standing against you whenever you try to do anything that they find impolite or uncivilized or "as bad as them!"
They will never be on your side because they still think we are in disagreement territory, instead of open "culture war." They are the reason why the Left went nearly unopposed for almost a decade (and thereby rooted in every institution) until the "MAGA types" had to force a change.
They are milquetoast and weak in an age when the Left is completely unhinged and demands considerable more resistance.
I'd consider that bad regardless of if it would have been good in a less crazy age, because its placating the masses into not fighting harder.
I think you still need these clueless fucks to be on your side. MAGA types are not the majority of the party yet. There are tons of people as smoothbrained as Ben who are "generally" conservative but aren't paying attention.
That's the catch-22.
And those people will be standing against you whenever you try to do anything that they find impolite or uncivilized or "as bad as them!"
They will never be on your side because they still think we are in disagreement territory, instead of open "culture war." They are the reason why the Left went nearly unopposed for almost a decade (and thereby rooted in every institution) until the "MAGA types" had to force a change.
Gotta use the Matt Walsh strategy of fuck you and the horse you rode in on