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In reply to the discussion: "Susan Sarandon just had a racism induced stroke." [View all]Prog Replacement Theory
Slide our party further to the right in hopes of snagging enough 'sane' Rethugs to make up for the inevitable haemorrhage of the leftmost 20% or so of our Party's voters. Reverse pincer movement, you marginalise the furthermost left of the mainstream parties and the furthermost RW. If you go rightward enough to grab 20% of the Rethugs, and because you are taking that 20% from the Rethugs, its a double net bonus because they shrink in equal numbers. The LW will either suck it up and still vote Dem or stay home or support a futile 3rd party. They will never go the neo nazi side.
100 voters in current times
50 Dem
50 Rethug
post realignment (a conservative case using my numbers above, as I have seen insanely optimistic percentages, like 30, 35% of Rethugs bolt if we go far enough to the right)
10 LW
50 New Dem
40 Hard RW
It is a Manchin/Collins paradise, IN THEORY.
You flush the hardcore (in terms of what is called hardcore for actual US major party voters) left down the shitter, and neuter the hard RW white nationalist Rethugs
I have seen it mentioned by talking heads and centre right to middle RW Never Trumper types, including neocons.
It is a pipe dream, it will never work and would be disastrous if attempted. I highly doubt a full 20% of Rethugs will bolt, plus the type of governance needed to keep them will rip our big tent apart, as the haemorrhaging will not be contained to only Sanderite types, those cross-over Rethugs we need to win will only be kept by doing things that will soon fuck up half of our old base.