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The Republican Party is dying in California:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018...sh-out-after-midterm-election-debacle-1000481
This story has implications beyond California. The two parties are in fundamentally different places nationally. The GOP has tied itself to the personality of Trump. Doing so it has left behind the social purposes that legitimatized it as a national party, such as fiscal discipline (blown to pieces with the tax cuts) and limited government (not when you adore a President who in turn prefers tyrants to other democratic leaders and would be one himself if he could). White nationalism, thinly disguised as "MAGA" and its sidekick, illegal immigration, are about all the party has now as a unifying politic, reducing Republicans to not much more than a throwback to the "Know Nothings" anti-immigration party of the 1850's. The cheap morality of MAGA is long term fatal poison. Democrats profit from this. They have the field almost to themselves now for broad based issues like health care, women's rights, civil rights, fair wages, etc. The Democratic party can afford to be as progressive as it was with the New Deal and Johnson's 'Great Society', and is showing signs it is going to be.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018...sh-out-after-midterm-election-debacle-1000481
This story has implications beyond California. The two parties are in fundamentally different places nationally. The GOP has tied itself to the personality of Trump. Doing so it has left behind the social purposes that legitimatized it as a national party, such as fiscal discipline (blown to pieces with the tax cuts) and limited government (not when you adore a President who in turn prefers tyrants to other democratic leaders and would be one himself if he could). White nationalism, thinly disguised as "MAGA" and its sidekick, illegal immigration, are about all the party has now as a unifying politic, reducing Republicans to not much more than a throwback to the "Know Nothings" anti-immigration party of the 1850's. The cheap morality of MAGA is long term fatal poison. Democrats profit from this. They have the field almost to themselves now for broad based issues like health care, women's rights, civil rights, fair wages, etc. The Democratic party can afford to be as progressive as it was with the New Deal and Johnson's 'Great Society', and is showing signs it is going to be.
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