Message from @[Lex]
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Well said.
I think a lot of those establishmentarians are in office for a reason. You need those types of candidates in order to win in that distritct/state. Someone like Marsha Blackburn wouldn't be doing half as good as Bob Hugin is doing in New Jersey. Kicking them out of safe republican seats and installing an /our guy/ makes sense, but the "moderates" still have their use. The two party system created a spectrum of left vs right, ranging from Maxine Waters to the Uni Party to someone like Bill Posey. Those safe seats are always going to be there, but you need those swing seats in order to actually get anything done. I'd much rather work with the Orrin Hatches of the world to try and get something done than sit in a permanent minority while the left is constantly passing center-left laws. If the United States had a parliamentary system then I'd agree on the necessity of ideological homogeneity among the populist-right, however, we need to think of the current situation like there are 5 parties: The far-left, the center left, the center, the center right, and the far-right. We need a coalition in order to get anything done, and the center-right are the only people who will even speak to us.
In areas where it makes sense, maybe
But we can have better people in a lot of areas
agreed
@Amsel I would argue that a candidate with a RIght Wing Populist platform (ie. RIght on cultural and social issues, but more moderate on economic issues like George Wallace) would do very well in the MidWest and the Appalachian states but the GOP donors and the establishment wouldn't support those kinds of candidates because the main thing they care about is Economic issues
As a natsoc I'm definitely biased towards an economically left socially right platform.
The nazis were pretty pro-entrepreneur IIRC, weren't they?
Also anti-unemployment benefits
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There was nothing philosophically leftist about any of the 3R's economic policies.
http://www.270towin.com/2018-senate-election/29gKLl this is the most plausible senate prediction i'd say
@Rhodesiaboo do you agree?
without tossups, a serious prediction would be:
This is a reasonable prediction.
54 Senate Seats isn't bad
if we had 54 Senate seats right now I think we would be having 0 problems pushing Kavanaugh through
probably 0 problems pushing someone even further to the right of Kavanaugh through
I do not see a net loss in the senate race.
But this map WILL change if different senators vote for Kavanaugh or don't vote for Kavanaugh.
If DOnnelly votes Kavanaugh, it'll shrink.
If Manchin doesn't vote Kavanaugh I'd reconsider it being blue but not enough to consider it red.
Everything I’ve seen has just been like 2016
@Rhodesiaboo then you must not have payed any attention at all in 2016
Literally where we are right now is where we were in 2016
It was when the grab her by the pussy tape came out and we all thought we were going to lose badly
The congressional polls were nothing like they are now
Most of them
I remember 2016
This is nothing like 2016
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Welp, keep denying it
Wasn't Hildawg up by double digits around the grab her by the pussy time?
Yeah
And a lot of these races says the democrats are up by double digits.
Kill the polling companies by proving their biased pollings wrong
The more money they lose
The more they'll be less inclined to be biased