And it's been no less true for 30 years that there's no better, more sure-fire way of giving Democrats undisputed power forever than to fracture the GOP into competing parties.
Let's say we start a MAGA or America First party? What happens? Certainly not every registered Republican is going to switch. Some would continue voting for the GOP candidate, so all we've done is reduced our power. Even if 75% of registered Republicans would switch to a MAGA party (and I have no delusions it would actually be anywhere near that high), that would still result in Democrats winning every single state and federal election.
We should hope that it's the left that fractures. The best thing that could possibly happen for conservatism in America is that the more radical Neo-progressive elements of the Democrats get tired of being tokenized and exploited by "old white people" and form their own radical left party. Separate the radical racial-identitarians from the relatively normal albeit naive and ignorant people who simply still think that Democrat = liberal and Republican = white supremacist, and the left would never win another election outside of places like California and New York where conservatives don't even bother running.
The single biggest problem with starting a new party is funding. That shit costs a TON of money. Could you get a decent chunk in donations? Yeah. Will it be enough? No. And it'd be a HUGE challenge to get donators of the GOP to flip and it'd be even more of a challenge to get the donators who bailed after the 6th to back a MAGA party.
You need the money to be influential and hire pollsters, lawyers, canvassers, poll workers, purchase/lease space in DC and other major cities. We're talking tens of millions a year. It's fucking WILD how much money these guys pull in. From lobby groups and wealthy donors.
IF you could get large lobby groups to link up with a MAGA party, something like the NRA, then you'd be in business. But the NRA is petrified right now because Biden is going to shut them down and make it so firearms manufacturers can be sued if a weapon is used in an 'unlawful way'. AKA, with the gun violence in Chicago alone, they'll be sued into bankruptcy in a year. Does it fix gun violence? Nope. Is it a HUGE STEP into disarming the public? Yep.
And it's been no less true for 30 years that there's no better, more sure-fire way of giving Democrats undisputed power forever than to fracture the GOP into competing parties.
Let's say we start a MAGA or America First party? What happens? Certainly not every registered Republican is going to switch. Some would continue voting for the GOP candidate, so all we've done is reduced our power. Even if 75% of registered Republicans would switch to a MAGA party (and I have no delusions it would actually be anywhere near that high), that would still result in Democrats winning every single state and federal election.
We should hope that it's the left that fractures. The best thing that could possibly happen for conservatism in America is that the more radical Neo-progressive elements of the Democrats get tired of being tokenized and exploited by "old white people" and form their own radical left party. Separate the radical racial-identitarians from the relatively normal albeit naive and ignorant people who simply still think that Democrat = liberal and Republican = white supremacist, and the left would never win another election outside of places like California and New York where conservatives don't even bother running.
The single biggest problem with starting a new party is funding. That shit costs a TON of money. Could you get a decent chunk in donations? Yeah. Will it be enough? No. And it'd be a HUGE challenge to get donators of the GOP to flip and it'd be even more of a challenge to get the donators who bailed after the 6th to back a MAGA party.
You need the money to be influential and hire pollsters, lawyers, canvassers, poll workers, purchase/lease space in DC and other major cities. We're talking tens of millions a year. It's fucking WILD how much money these guys pull in. From lobby groups and wealthy donors.
IF you could get large lobby groups to link up with a MAGA party, something like the NRA, then you'd be in business. But the NRA is petrified right now because Biden is going to shut them down and make it so firearms manufacturers can be sued if a weapon is used in an 'unlawful way'. AKA, with the gun violence in Chicago alone, they'll be sued into bankruptcy in a year. Does it fix gun violence? Nope. Is it a HUGE STEP into disarming the public? Yep.
Start small. Local elections are cheap. And there are thousands of them, they can't rig them all.