Please, please, please siphon off many, many conservatives from the Republican Party and sap all of their power. I’d love to see the New Whigs battle the Old Whigs while the Democratic Party takes all the wins…
Well, there have been a few signs in the recent primaries that they should move a bit to the left of they want to follow their constituents. Whether they do remains to be seen, but they won’t need to if the right is divided.
Please, please, please siphon off many, many conservatives from the Republican Party and sap all of their power. I’d love to see the New Whigs battle the Old Whigs while the Democratic Party takes all the wins…
Yeaaah but the Dems would see this as an easy win and so wouldn’t have any incentive to change.
As opposed to all the incentive to change they have right now while losing to the worst iteration of the Republican party of the last century?
Well, there have been a few signs in the recent primaries that they should move a bit to the left of they want to follow their constituents. Whether they do remains to be seen, but they won’t need to if the right is divided.
Keep in mind that that pressure is coming from outside the Democratic party. Internal structures are pushing back very hard on that transition