Note their platforms, cripplecreek. They all run as conservatives, even though those supported by the media (and thus getting the largest # of votes) aren’t actually so conservative by record.
That’s the real shame, but I suppose it’s the natural effect of things having been pretty good for so long: most voters don’t feel compelled to look more deeply.
Sad to say that memories of 1980 are so short. It took Carter with high interest rates, inflation and the old misery index to bring Reagan, perhaps we have to do it all over again.
Irony is the ones who don’t pay attention are the very ones who can least afford to go back down that road. Self inflicted wounds are the hardest, but lessons must be learned over and over again it seems.
Lather, rinse, repeat...
However this maybe premature, none of my contacts seem to know anything about Fred dropping yet. So we shall see...