WHERE WE ARE: SOME THOUGHTS FROM COMMENTER “PORKYPINE:”

I’ve been saying for a while, the modern radical-left Dems have maybe 10% of the country as true-believer supporters. Maybe less. Then there are Blue-Bubble herd followers, who get them to maybe 35%. In a good Dem year low-info moderates who swallow the Dem lie du jour bring it to maybe 45%. Then if cheating can make up the rest, Dems once again control all that sweet grift. It’s been working for decades now.

The obvious conclusion is, the Dems are vulnerable on several of those points, and Trump is indeed working those angles hard. The longer-term conclusion is, the US system rewards two leading parties vying for the center, and punishes all others. But the Dems can’t compete for the center anymore (other than by lying) because any move that way is anathema to the lefties who’ve taken over.

So yeah, they now have to try everything, legal or otherwise, except centrism to win. And they’re desperate because they’re beginning to perceive their likely future as a rump radical 10% ignored and marginalized by some new two-centrist-parties national realignment. Desperate people steeped in violent revolutionary tropes… It’s gonna get ugly until they finally internalize that they’ve lost.

It’ll get far uglier if we do let them win — no tyrant worse than one who’s just had a good scare. Best we don’t let this crowd win national power again, ever.

Yep.