You can't understand politics without paying attention to who is an ideologue and who is partisan. The partisans want their tribe to win, kill all the men, take the women & salt the fields of the other tribe. The ideologues want a list of policies.
For partisans, it's game theory and where one side wins the other must be losing. For ideologues, they got ideas, rules they want
Low tax Republicans = ideologues
Free speech Republicans = ideologues
Trump = partisan. Policy driven by opportunists & a desire to crush the other.♡ 0 ↻ 0White supremacists are ideologues & there aren't a lot of them. What we got a lot of are partisans, the plumbers & exmilitary & office workers who don't have any policy opinions just want to see their enemies fall. The coalition structure makes it hard to make sweeping statements
♡ 0 ↻ 0The Rs are funded by billionaire opportunists who are not ideologues or partisans, they have a coalition with religious ideologues (Catholics who want the inquisition) & a coalition with a huge class of policy apathetic working class populist-partisans.
♡ 0 ↻ 0Somehow the left lost the working class & populism, that is the coalition that could be revived.
Anyhow, I'm just a bystander watching the tides roll in and out thinking about how much energy it would take to change it. I alone can at best make a small wave.♡ 0 ↻ 0