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American Democracy Can't Survive Unless the Far Right Is Marginalized. Here's How to Do It
TIME ^ | 3/19/21 | Lee Drutman

Posted on 05/30/2023 3:35:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff

As our nation comes to grip with the horrific events of January 6 and watches the Republican Party descend further into Trumpism as it pushes hundreds of restrictive voting laws across the country, the obvious question is how does American democracy come back from all this?

There is a path forward: The super-majority of Americans across the political spectrum who reject the extremism need to come together. This includes the pro-democracy right. But for the pro-democracy right to thrive, we need to reform the U.S. voting system to allow for new parties to emerge outside the existing two-party system. Without electoral reform, third parties are likely to fail as spoilers. But only a new small “l” liberal Republican Party—distinct from the increasingly illiberal Trumpist GOP, can establish a new partisan identity that gives center-right voters a meaningful home. Only a new party can create a distinct pathway to elected office that avoids the combatively hyper-partisan Republican primary voters. A party faction cannot do these things. Left to fight a losing battle in the Republican Party, as the recent CPAC confirmed, the withering pro-democracy faction is up against frightening odds

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I looked through the search engine, and this article was not mentioned, after two years.

Still remember my father saying to my mother," why do subscribe to that sh!t."

But when it came to the sunday New York Times, my mother read the fashion pages, and obituary's religiously. My dad would read it and say "All the News fit to tint".

1 posted on 05/30/2023 3:35:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

bkmk


2 posted on 05/30/2023 3:36:58 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: DallasBiff

Trump agrees. He blames conservatives for the 2022 midterms loss.

That is why Trump has been attacking conservatives and endorsing RINOs.


3 posted on 05/30/2023 3:37:14 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: DallasBiff
The only way to elevate the moderate Republicans is for Congress to use its constitutional authority (Article I, Section IV) to change how we vote, and create electoral opportunities for a center-right to rise again. In the House, this would mean multi-member districts with ranked-choice voting.

Um.........NO. Commie rat bastard.

4 posted on 05/30/2023 3:39:17 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: DallasBiff

Democracy is mob rule.


5 posted on 05/30/2023 3:41:39 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: DallasBiff

We don’t want democracy.

We want our Constitutional republic back.


6 posted on 05/30/2023 3:41:43 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: DallasBiff

The communists are asking all the useful idiots to gang up on us.

Read my tagline.


7 posted on 05/30/2023 3:41:48 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

How were those mushrooms you took this morning?


8 posted on 05/30/2023 3:44:11 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: DallasBiff
"Restrictive" and "barriers to." What a load of crap.

According to the leftists, studying and turning in homework is barriers to black achievement in schools. Requiring an ID is a barriers to voting. Requiring one to be a girl to compete in girls sports is a barrier to fake men. Requiring women to be physically competent is a barrier to them being firemen or soldiers.

To hell with them all.

9 posted on 05/30/2023 3:44:27 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: DallasBiff

We feel the same about them. In the past, we were live and let live until your actions affected someone else. But they pushed, and they pushed, until they pushed too far! They went after our children!


10 posted on 05/30/2023 3:44:40 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: DallasBiff

Things have changed since 2021. Notably the Ukraine war and ongoing economic problems.
The article puts down Poland’s PiS for instance.
But since 2022 the very anti-Russian PiS are the good guys.
And Merkel’s reputation has suffered terribly.

And that’s just in Europe.


11 posted on 05/30/2023 3:45:24 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: DallasBiff

Wow - someone out there still reads Time.

Who’d have guessed?


12 posted on 05/30/2023 3:45:37 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: vivenne
How were those mushrooms you took this morning?

Look folks! Another Trump cultist who cannot refute my assertion using FACTS, so they call names.

Too bad that they are so vapid.

13 posted on 05/30/2023 3:46:52 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: DallasBiff

IOW: Democracy can’t survive if those who disagree with me are allowed to participate.


14 posted on 05/30/2023 3:47:05 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: DallasBiff

Proving once again that Democracy dies with Democrats.


15 posted on 05/30/2023 3:52:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: facedown

Ranked choice voting is a verrrry bad idea.


16 posted on 05/30/2023 3:57:12 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: DallasBiff

When a Leftist says “democracy” he really means “socialism”.


17 posted on 05/30/2023 3:58:11 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Lindsey Graham was responsible, with his national abortion ban nonsense, so Trump is not wrong. With the added Biden bait and switch of college debt forgiveness , the right had no chance to capture gen z votes… which ultimately lost many races.


18 posted on 05/30/2023 3:58:25 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: DallasBiff

Far Right = So FAR we’ve been RIGHT about everything!!!


19 posted on 05/30/2023 4:04:52 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Normal people don’t attempt to refute total nonsense—they just rightfully mock it.


20 posted on 05/30/2023 4:09:47 PM PDT by vivenne
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