you could be correct (which would be very scarey indeed, very very very scarey for the future of USA).
We were thinking that it sure looks like a “coup” ... whereby a fairly small group of Marxist Leninist Islamicists seized control of the top ranks of the party apparatus (with the help of unlimited funding from Soros/Saudi Royal Family/etc.).
if you are correct and it is the broad base of the party membership, kiss America goodbye.
if it is a coup type situation, then it can (and likely will eventually) be corrected
It is not coup. There has been a leftward drift all my life and I’m over 50.
Remember Glenn Beck’s book “The Overton Window?” Well, the Overton Window is a real concept. It frames what is politically possible and it is mobile. It has been moving farther and farther left since I was a boy.
Nowadays, most “conservative” ‘Pubbies would fall to the left of the average Democrat of the mid-60s. Most liberal Democrats are more like the hippie trash that was taking over and wrecking campuses (campii?) in the 60’s. Even when conservatives held power, they don’t move the window back to the left; they just stop or slow the leftward movement.
Problem is, survival and prosperity are no longer tied to what you do. It is tied to manipulating the “system.” You can have a passable life if you just scam the system, drop a few bastards, etc. If you are more ambitious you work for for the system. If you are trying to get bloody rich, you figure out how to be a crony “capitalist.”
We need a principle “Nobody is entitled to anything for which someone else must pay.” Unfortunately, that would get you killed at the polls. From where I stand “We Are All Doomed” per John Derbyshire.