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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It is very obvious at this point that the Democratic Party will become the new Republican Party.

Trump created a historic opportunity that the Democrats could only have dreamed of - a Republican president who somehow managed to piss off the National Security State, the Military Industrial Complex, the Oil and Gas Industry, and the Wall Street Finance Capitalists all at the same time, where many of whom have been traditional supporters of the Republican Party.

Trump is the true Pied Piper candidate - only in the longer term than Hillary had anticipated - and the Democrats would be stupid not to take the opportunity gifted to them.

What will become of the Republican Party then? MAGA culture war petit bourgeois idiots will take over the party. The traditional bourgeois base is already jumping ship.

Remember, the Democrats do not want Republican voters, they want the Republican donors. The 1% that matters. This is the key to understanding the Democratic strategy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You know, this reminds me of this quote:

In the first French Revolution the rule of the Constitutionalists is followed by the rule of the Girondists and the rule of the Girondists by the rule of the Jacobins. Each of these parties relies on the more progressive party for support. As soon as it has brought the revolution far enough to be unable to follow it further, still less to go ahead of it, it is thrust aside by the bolder ally that stands behind it and sent to the guillotine. The revolution thus moves along an ascending line.

It is the reverse with the {U.S elections of 2024}

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like the Democrats are going back to their roots with a combination of the Bourbon Democrats fiscal policy and the Wilsonian foreign policy.

It’s difficult to tell where Republicans might go after MAGA. Republicans aren’t unfamiliar with periods of political realignment. There could be a strong third party candidate like Teddy Roosevelt or George Wallace that play a role in where both parties ultimately end up. RFK isn’t it and neither is Jill Stein.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I could see the GOP pivoting to some soft MAGA communism minus the communism, so MAGA social democracy.