I had some hope like 8 years ago that Republicans would split and oust the smaller white nationalist, fascist section to let it wither. But no. They did what they did with the Tea Party and absorbed them, letting the fringe take them over.
It’s the lack of ranked choice voting. It forces center-right neoliberals to share a party with fascists and progressives to share a party with slightly less psychopathic neoliberals.
I had some hope like 8 years ago that Republicans would split and oust the smaller white nationalist, fascist section to let it wither. But no. They did what they did with the Tea Party and absorbed them, letting the fringe take them over.
It’s the lack of ranked choice voting. It forces center-right neoliberals to share a party with fascists and progressives to share a party with slightly less psychopathic neoliberals.