there should be a two pronged strategy of "look how good the economy is doing" and "look how crazy the left is"

the economy slant could be good for moderates

also,

um, ISIS is gone, people. and so many people don't realize it.

also, I hope the GOP uses the Democrats' Russia LARPing to fuck them up

yeah, emphasize ISIS's defeat too

that'd be more of a Trump issue in specific than republican congressional candidates

Jesus, Congress really haven't done anything with the legislative power they have

what would motivate someone to go and vote for the right wing

it really sucks

In 1994 for contrast, the GOP put a new law out nearly every month

under a Democrat president too

the Newt Gingrich Congress was insanely energetic

if the republicans were as enthusiastic to vote for trump's policies as the democrats are to vote against them, we'd have the wall already completely built by now

the fact we even have to make deals is ridiculous

deals _within_ the Republican party

yeah

this is why Trump's gotta mold the GOP

issue is that all that potential may have been squandered after Moore

McConnell has a lot more clout now

The GOP _has_ been united when it comes to Trump's judiciary appointments,

molding the GOP should be something that to focus on after the midterms and after 2020

in Arizona there'll definitely be a better R than Flake up, but what do we do other than that?

it wasn't realistic to try molding it from 2016-2018

sorry, define mold

shift the core

changing it into a specifically Trump/MAGA party, instead of the party of G Dubya Bush / McCain / Romney

make it to where when you think "republican" you think Trump and not Bush/McCain

no amnesty, America First

that kind of thing

so basically, Tom Cotton types?

with more energy

it's hard to think of an example, really

if Moore won, that kind of person

not just immigration hardliners, which is extremely important, but a care for the US in trade, allowing our interests to be beholden to no other nation

Oh oh

Tom Cotton just pointed out something 50 seconds ago,

if Democrats shut down the government over dreamers, it'll cost them

I've heard that angle, not sure if it'll be valid, but it's worth a shot

If Congress can't pass a budget in 5 days, it'll happen

I think personally Trump set the 'DACA deal' up to fail

yeah I know, I'm focusing more on DACA than the shutdown

Trump's been placing the blame on the inevitable fall of the deal on DACA, where he can frame that as the Dems screwing up

It's like a catch-22, if no deal is made, the Dems couldn't save the Dreamers when the Rs were willing to make a deal, if a deal is made, then a shift in the immigration system will have less legal immigration which will cost Dems, also Trump would get the wall which may make Dems look weak.

I don't know how the average voter would interpret it, but fingers are crossed all things considered

"I don't know how the average voter would interpret it,"

yeah, that's the thing

many leftists and minorities will still turn out for the Democrats regardless

I don't even know if DACA is going to be relevant in 10 months

probably not as much were it not for Trump's move

We'll see about what it does, I hope Trump has a good strategy in mind

I think we're better off getting Trumpians and neverTrumpers to turn out along with getting moderates and independents on our side

than to try to depress leftist turnout

you're better off trying to get a leftist to abandon the left first than to convince them not to vote

btw, someone should bump the general

right now

oops

just got archived

oh well

I'll make a new one later tonight

lot of Belgian shills on those threads

lmao yeah, it's probably the same guy though

meanwhile thread w/ subject 'fat fuck' has 300 replies

I've noticed a lot of blatant shilling from posters with European flags

in the early morning

what a shitty website, I swear

when I make it later in the day (beyond 5pm eastern time), it's less dominated by shills

yeah

it's wayyyyy to easy to slide /pol/

quality definitely has been depressed in the last few months

I'm wondering why 'Krautgate' is getting so many threads that easily reach the post limit

I never even bothered to watch "Kraut and Tea"

and don't follow e-celeb drama

eceleb stuff is interesting to people, getting people in office isn't

Elections will become more interesting as they loom closer

from what I gather Kraut got a race realism advocate taken off the internet, then made a discord to dox a bunch of people on the right, it got leaked, then he shut his channel down

There was a thread for the Czech election just a few hours ago

skeptic community dies, end of story

anyways, I think getting the people who voted Trump to vote in the midterms is a good way to go, maybe Trump has some kind of justice plot brewing behind the scenes, but I'm not placing all my chips on that

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/156732172

new thread

@FLanon yeah, I know the sparknotes version of the story behind the Krautgate thing

maybe we could shill tax reform to moderates, and it could work, not 100% on that though

but why the fuck are there still so many generals reaching the bump limit

I figured it would have fizzled out weeks ago

yeah it seems like a done and over story, Jim made his last video on it

from what I can tell, Krautgate general just looks like eceleb general now

it's not just about the original Krautgate story anymore

lol my new thread is ALREADY ON PAGE 5

the debates w/ spencer and sargon are a lot more fresh in terms of eceleb stuff than the kraut story

lemme get on the thread real quicl

I made it only 4 minutes ago

that's the nature of /pol/ I guess

I'm not sure what you'd call that first thread ("you seem troubled anon...")

no one complains about any of the threads except for ours

just "slide thread" I guess

hypothetical scenario thread?

it's a hypothetical scenario with a clickbaity picture and low effort clickbaity title though

it's just so fucking unproductive that it's insane

2nd one is a general thread on the Balkans that probably would be more appropriate for /int/