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Tyrone Slothrop · 08-21-2017, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

If White Nationalist parades aren't overly dramatic exhibitions, nothing is. And these loons are the Right's useful idiots of the moment, intended to bring out the useful idiots of Antifa, and whip up more identity politics arguments on the Left.

The GOP wants to bring out the most shrill voices of the Left to whip up the anti-anti-Trump voters. Exactly as Bannon noted in his interview with the American Spectator.

By the way, it's working. People in the middle aren't picking a side (because neither is offering much in the way of actual policy, and the middle only really cares about the economy and market, which are doing okay for the moment). They're checking out, disgusted with Trump. But also disgusted with the Resistance. It's exhausting to watch for most people, and the default proposition (pretty accurate) is, "Both sides are owned by the same people, and while the man at the top is a huge embarrassment, both are full of shit... and deserve each other." This voter won't punish an R in 2018 because of Trump. He'll view the Trump/Resistance debacle as a freakshow and vote his pocketbook, which choice will be, "don't fuck with a decent economy... vote an incumbent."

Ds won't lose seats as anticipated, but they won't gain any, either. Maybe some trades here and there, with an R losing in one place and a D losing in another. Largely a wash, if all things remain relatively the same through the mid-terms. Which they are likely to do. If the events of this Presidency haven't caused a massive economic shock thus far, I don't think anything this nut does will ever do so.

(By the way, I do not think this is a healthy economy, for many reasons I've previously stated. But relative to where it's been over the last ten years, given the market gain a lot of people [particularly the old] mistake for the actual economy, and the absence of volatility despite crazy world events, it is easy to perceive the economy is on solid footing.)

Democrats didn't make any gains in 2006 because people were disgusted with Code Pink.