Agree it is not pretty. You have a politically inexperienced President who has the entire media in a state of chronic hostility, he has personally insulted four or five former Republican opponents who are Senators with vengeful hearts( not that they didn’t need insulting),and a very slim margin in the senate. The Judiciary is hostile. The Speaker of the House is no bulldog. Politicians are often petty and narcissistic. The Democrats are solidly leftist, socialist and cohesive with a firm hold on ~40% of the population. Its a messy process but at this junction the Republican Party dented and defective is still the best vehicle for decent conservative. If you abandon it out of a sense of pure ideals, you will concede power to the vile Democrats and the suffering will be immense. Politics has always been the art of the possible.
The Democrats are solidly leftist, socialist and cohesive with a firm hold on ~40% of the population.
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With the dismissal of the case against the DNC for fixing the primary, the progs have lost the Berners, So, at best, that is *firm control* of maybe ~25% of the population. Could be less.
Agree with all your other points. We need to change the party from the grassroots upward. Let the progs form a 3rd party...it’ll keep them busy.