Nature abhors a vacuum. The GOP has now retreated so far to the authoritarian Right that there's a blank void over the Reagan-centered Republican swath of the electorate, so the Dems are kind of just swelling into the space left over. Sure, there were conscious decisions on both sides that led to this happening, but the overall effect is…
Nature abhors a vacuum. The GOP has now retreated so far to the authoritarian Right that there's a blank void over the Reagan-centered Republican swath of the electorate, so the Dems are kind of just swelling into the space left over. Sure, there were conscious decisions on both sides that led to this happening, but the overall effect is of the space just being filled with the available matter. We all joke/fret/complain about the "uniparty," but if the GOP keeps this up there really will be one.
Nature abhors a vacuum. The GOP has now retreated so far to the authoritarian Right that there's a blank void over the Reagan-centered Republican swath of the electorate, so the Dems are kind of just swelling into the space left over. Sure, there were conscious decisions on both sides that led to this happening, but the overall effect is of the space just being filled with the available matter. We all joke/fret/complain about the "uniparty," but if the GOP keeps this up there really will be one.