I think this is another “the bad guys are 10 feet tall” analysis.
Look, I do not doubt the left is organized as hell.
Right after the 2012 election there was a detailed analysis of what went wrong with Romney’s database mining on election day...it hadn’t been thoroughly tested and began to break down...there were no firewalls, etc.
That being said, and while acknowledging the left is soooo anxious to destroy liberty that the kooks who are part of that bankrupt ideology will sacrifice for it, I still do not buy the fact that they’re unbeatable.
If this Catalist was such a monster, why where there historic gains across the board in 2010...not just nationally, but also in state and local elections?
A multiple number of things went wrong in 2012. The ship can be righted, though.
A repentant nation would be a good start.
It wasn’t in place in 2010. They were still gathering data.
Lotta stuff now makes sense. The nosey GPS-equipped Obama canvassers ok 2008. The running the 2010 census out of the White House. Weird outreach attempts I’ve been subject to since 2012 (I routinely lie to pollsters to have fun and mess up their numbers. I’m guessing a lot of them weren’t really polling but doing data sweeps.)
I don’t think that this is a 10 foot tall enemy situation. I’m
Being a realist: the core of American political stability for the last few generations has been the requirement to appeal to the political center in order to win. If thats now gone, with the result being that the country is being frogmarched to the Left by a revolutionary political minority there will be s backlash (equal and opposite reaction). And it won’t end well.
At all.