>>It took generations to get where we are right now and it will take generations to get out of this mess. <<
My view is a bit different. It will take an election to get out of this mess, and if we don’t get it right pretty soon we never will get out of it. It’s unbelievable what the combination of a Leftist Supreme Court, a Leftist (and compliant) MSM, and a Leftist President have been able to achieve in such a short time.
Governor Walker is correct on one important point. The Senate filibuster rule has to be jettisoned if the next president is a Republican. That will be the only way to clean up the mess quickly enough to matter.
Re: “My view is a bit different. It will take an election to get out of this mess...”
The political math says you are wrong.
Legal immigration and second generation immigrants have added about 30,000,000 million voters since the Reagan Amnesty in 1986. 70%-80% of those folks vote for the Democrat Party. Because of his own immigration policies, Reagan could not be elected governor of California in 2015.
The fact that new citizens have very low voter turn out, especially in off year elections, is the only reason Republicans have any political power at all.
Every year America adds another 1 million new citizens and second generation voters. For some reason, a majority of Republicans and Conservatives celebrate that political insanity with almost as much enthusiasm as Democrats do!
But, when those new voters begin to turn out and vote at the same rate as Republicans vote, the game is over politically, and Democrats will take permanent control of the Federal Government.