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Trump administration 2024-2028

RangerRay said:
ICE has managed to deport a lot more illegals under the Obama Administration without having to resort to questionable or illegal tactics, hiding their identities or producing war porn.
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Three things: everyone from activists down to mere enthusiasts temper their oppositional energy and tactics when they find themselves opposing one of their own (and it is difficult to image a greater partisan divide than Obama and Trump); it is easy to have greater output numbers when you allow greater input numbers; Trump's administration is dealing with the insufficiently policed borders of the Biden administration, not the Obama administration.
RangerRay said:
The fears of doxxing are fear porn produced by the Administration and Fox “News” to excuse their goon behaviour, when it’s their behaviour that is making them extremely unpopular.
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Joshua Jahn. The concern is irrefutably legitimate.
 
RangerRay said:
Yes. Sykes is a former conservative radio host who lost his show when he refused to get on the Trump Train and saw him for the disaster It is. He also wrote a book titled “How the Right Lost its Mind”. Great book, highly recommended. I appreciate hearing from apostates because they are usually trying to warn people of trouble coming from their camp.
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Sykes isn't part of the Republican camp. He's with the community of self-exiled (former) Republican NeverTrumpers, who followed in the footsteps of David Frum by declaring themselves the True American Conservatives and reading everyone else out after Trump's ascent. (Of course the American conservative polity has always been a big tent, but they were accustomed to sitting at the head table during the Bush administration.) Several prominent members of the tribe openly declared that if the Republican party tolerated Trump, it would be better for the Republican party to be destroyed and rebuilt. Their attitude is approximately that they shouldn't have to do the hard work of remaining within the party to influence its course; they can stand outside lobbing molotov cocktails until it burns down and then they will show up to take over the ashes. Their maturity is close cousin to leaving the playground with their ball and going home.

They seek to conserve nothing except to restore their own proximity to power. Many of the prominent writers are people I used to read regularly, mostly at National Review. My views still mostly align with libertarian-inflected classical liberalism and what was conventional during the Mulroney/Reagan/Thatcher era; their minds are distraught and it shows in what they write. They've been 9 years without influence in Republican WH-contending circles, and 16 years out of the WH. Trump's unexpected second win has elevated my earlier prediction that they were pitching a fit because they foresaw a likely 16 to 24 years in the political wilderness (no turn again in the WH) to a time-out of 24 to 32.

Meanwhile they throw their weight behind Democrats, who are objectively becoming much more extreme relative to the NeverTrumpers' professed conservativism. (It is a trivial matter of common sense to observe that US progressives are moving left with a much velocity greater than conservatives, and that US conservatives also have a net leftward velocity.) They claim to be conservatives even as they support progressive political fortunes. They may or may not be conscious that to Democrats they are useful idiots; they will each in turn be discarded when they cease to be useful. A fitting end for people who think they are entitled to reap the profits of voters' support to their own ends and then to discard the interests of those voters when the latter doubt their interests were being served in the first place.
 
Brad Sallows said:
(It is a trivial matter of common sense to observe that US progressives are moving left with a much velocity greater than conservatives, and that US conservatives also have a net leftward velocity.)
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Disagree completely.

The Democratic party went Clinton->Obama->Biden->Harris->Newsom/Shaprio?
The Republican party when H.W. Bush->W. Bush->Trump->Trump 2.0

Looking at those two progressions, how can you possibly say that the Democrats have moved with "greater" velocity than the Republicans?
 
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