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user-inactivated  ·  2688 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Basket of Deplorables: 1. "Where we go from here"

    The left faces an internal crisis in the years ahead that I think will be brutal. In short, they are going to have come to terms with what they did – they nominated a totally corrupt and scandal-plagued person when almost any level of a normal, measured candidate could have won the race.

    Secondly, the civil war in the left, which my liberal friends do not yet know how massive it is about to become. That radical progressive wing of Warren and Sanders is going to go to war with center-left moderates, and it is going to be nasty.

    And then the one which I believe will dictate so much of the future of American political life: The civil war in the right – the battle between populist-nationalists and idea-driven conservatives. I am well aware of the fact that Trump’s win grants appearance that the former is winning over the latter. I am not so sure. The “across country” wave of ideological conservatives who won by much larger margins tells a different story. I am convinced of this: The winner of this battle will determine the fate of conservatism in this generation. The latter must, must, must defeat the former.

I just wanted to point a finger to this part of the article seeing as I remember us sharing the hope for the Republican party to dissolve and reform as a new conservative party. Funny, since it looks like the right side of the aisle was looking at the left and thinking the same thing. I can understand where he's speaking to with regards to the far left tugging on the moderates, which seems to be the same on the right as well. <s> Maybe both will collapse and emerge as a far-left, far-right, and moderate party for us all to enjoy. </s>