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Ken Peabody's avatar

The GOP attracts voters emotionally, not intellectually. This is why the incoherence works. Kepp voters riled up with false claims and emotional appeals in order to get votes. Voters don't care about coherence or even truth. It is mind boggling to me that after all the failed law suits and the complete lack of evidence that a majority of republican voters believe that there was massive voter fraud. Democrats are not going to overcome this with rational policy arguments. I fear we're doomed.

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John Murphy's avatar

I think its true that the Republicans have often manipulated social conservatives to protect the prerogatives of high earners but the radicalism and arrogance of liberals in pushing their agenda from the 1960s to the present--often through judicial fiat or bureaucratic initiative--has played a role as well. This, coupled with an aggressive monitoring of the discourse that rules ever more opinions out-of-bounds, is a major driver of the negative partisanship that works like acid on our democracy.

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