tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post6094018472846540301..comments2024-03-26T10:26:51.288-04:00Comments on Jim Leff's Slog: The Russians Don't Care If We Know EverythingJim Leffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007232702717055047noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-74378079946502230712017-08-06T01:41:34.230-04:002017-08-06T01:41:34.230-04:00The Republican desperation is the result of demogr...The Republican desperation is the result of demographic changes. This existential desperation has given rise to both Trump enabling and the redistricting excesses you mention. I think you may have interposed cause and effect.<br /><br />What we've been seeing - Fox News derangement, Russian collusion, riling up the yahoos, nativism, truth buggery, all of it over the past decade - has been desperate actions by a party with no other moves.<br /><br />As I wrote a few months ago, we need to....<br /><br />"Work hard to find institutional ways to allow Republican party/Conservatism-in-general to remain politically viable in spite of shifting demographics, recognizing that its shrinking viability - and the increasing division and rhetoric it's prompted - has been disastrous. A sane right is vital for the country (even liberals should want that more than they want a perpetually dominant left, and should recognize that we can't have both a sane right and a perpetually dominant left). "<br /><br />FWIW, that appeared here: http://jimleff.blogspot.com/2016/10/my-presidential-platform.htmlJim Leffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007232702717055047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-6123084643142975972017-08-05T23:44:38.211-04:002017-08-05T23:44:38.211-04:00Yes, this is what asymetrical cyberwar looks like,...Yes, this is what asymetrical cyberwar looks like, and I agree about the chaos thing. Yet, far more important than what the Russians did is what Republicans were willing to do because they have been desperate and holding on thanks to 2010 that was very favorable to them thanks to continued popular anger at the lingering effects of the financial crisis. So while I agree that Democrats have to work constructively to get us out of the mess we have made, it is the Republicans who have to do the real soul-searching. And we will know they are really serious about that when they start begging to return to the Fairness Doctrine and redistricting by commission rather than legislatures in order to save themselves from themselves.vhlivhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014847502010321186noreply@blogger.com