Yet I fear this will not come to pass due to the emergence of cultural Democrat voters.

Are a minority, and not a new minority. There has always been a FAR left, and frankly the faaaar left today isn't growing like it was decades ago. The trouble the left has is that while they keep preaching that demographics is destiny, the reality is that some people grow out of leftism as they reach middle age, but the reverse is very rare.

There are many "democrats", specifically older democrats, who quietly abandon most of their liberal ideas as they become successful and have more to lose. For these voters, they are not "cultural democrats" to use your word. IME they generally have one or two specific issues on which they refuse to compromise, but otherwise they just want their 401k to keep growing.

These are the people that decide elections. They split over Trump vs Hillary. They went for Biden over Trump because they believed appeasement would work on the mob.

When appeasement fails, and we know it will because it already has...

They'll reach for the candidate who seems the most likely to go Karlis Ulmanis on the hooligans in the streets.

YOUR mistake is thinking that they would reach for the stick first. Republicans do this, yes, but the moderate democrats won't. They won't hop the fence UNTIL they've been shown that voting for their side doesn't work. THEN they vote for the stick.

You don't get Reagan without Carter.

Yet I fear this will not come to pass due to the emergence of cultural Democrat voters.

Are a minority, and not a new minority. There has always been a FAR left, and frankly the faaaar left today isn't growing like it was decades ago. The trouble the left has is that while they keep preaching that demographics is destiny, the reality is that some people grow out of leftism as they reach middle age, but the reverse is very rare.

There are many "democrats", specifically older democrats, who quietly abandon most of their liberal ideas as they become successful and have more to lose. For these voters, they are not "cultural democrats" to use your word. IME they generally have one or two specific issues on which they refuse to compromise, but otherwise they just want their 401k to keep growing.

These are the people that decide elections. They split over Trump vs Hillary. They went for Biden over Trump because they believed appeasement would work on the mob.

When appeasement fails, and we know it will because it already has...

They'll reach for the candidate who seems the most likely to go Karlis Ulmanis on the hooligans in the streets.

YOUR mistake is thinking that they would reach for the stick first. Republicans do this, yes, but the moderate democrats won't. They won't hop the fence UNTIL they've been shown that voting for their side doesn't work. THEN they vote for the stick.

Yet I fear this will not come to pass due to the emergence of cultural Democrat voters.

Are a minority, and not a new minority. There has always been a FAR left, and frankly the faaaar left today isn't growing like it was decades ago. The trouble the left has is that while they keep preaching that demographics is destiny, the reality is that some people grow out of leftism as they reach middle age, but the reverse is very rare.

There are many "democrats", specifically older democrats, who quietly abandon most of their liberal ideas as they become successful and have more to lose. For these voters, they are not "cultural democrats" to use your word. IME they generally have one or two specific issues on which they refuse to compromise, but otherwise they just want their 401k to keep growing.

These are the people that decide elections. They split over Trump vs Hillary. They went for Biden over Trump because they believed appeasement would work on the mob.

When appeasement fails, and we know it will because it already has...

They'll reach for the candidate who seems the most likely to go Karlis Ulmanis on the hooligans in the streets.