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Again I-Man, this is District 2, not Jamestown.
The "Trump" thing just doesn't trigger people here as it does in upper class hoity toity virtue singaling neighborhoods where they still read the NY Times and take it seroiusly.
Hoity toity?? I beg your pardon. I must admit I don't get out to the red parts of the state much. But, I did live in Foster for a time. Does that count?
Hoity toity?? I beg your pardon. I must admit I don't get out to the red parts of the state much. But, I did live in Foster for a time. Does that count?
That counts. Foster is redder than here.
Nor, just for the record, am I pretending Cranston is like deep red. It's more a 55/45 type' o deal.
But the accumulative affect is we have a Republican Mayor, a Republican Councilman (Ward 5), a tough on crime anti-woke Democratic Statehouse Rep. (Charlene Lima) - and now we're about to have a Republican Federal House rep.
Magaziner is no ideologue, he's a Clinton style mercenary. And they don't make bad politicians. The first mistake folks make about pols is that they're a friend. Next, that they're just like me, and finally that they care about me. Partisan, Ideological voters remind me most of all, WWF fans. With Washington the locker room. Wanna change the game? Stop buying tickets.
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You don't think they're passing the popcorn while watching extremist nuts of both parties strangle each other while professing to have found the Fountain of Truth. My father can beat up your father?
The first mistake folks make about pols is that they're a friend. Next, that they're just like me, and finally that they care about me. Partisan, Ideological voters remind me most of all, WWF fans. With Washington the locker room. Wanna change the game? Stop buying tickets.
Pre 2015 sure.
All that is changing.
The American people saw the results of MAGA, and now we've seen the results of 16 months of "progressive".
That is one helluva stark contrast. It's why Trump's popularity has actually risen to the point where he is now the most popular national politician in America.
The biggest difference right now between the two parties is the dynamic between their elites and their voters.
On The Republican side, the voters (MAGA) are (not so) slowly but surely taking over the Party. It will take another couple of cycles, but soon the old elite warmongering neocons will be gone for good. They're already a minority. (Albeit a larger one than we would prefer.) Hell, we even kicked out the Chamber of Commerce! We're balancing labor interests more into the mix. We're just not commies.
On the Democratic side, the elites have completely conquered their voters - but in the process have had to accept a much smaller slice of the demographic pie than they believed they were acquiring. Sure, they signal and genuflect their "Progressivism", but dark money and corporations still rule the roost with an iron fist.
The result is the old "Uniparty" politics you're describing, while once entirely accurate, is rapidly becoming an obsolete model.
That counts. Foster is redder than here. Nor, just for the record, am I pretending Cranston is like deep red. It's more a 55/45 type' o deal.
But the accumulative affect is we have a Republican Mayor, a Republican Councilman (Ward 5), a tough on crime anti-woke Democratic Statehouse Rep. (Charlene Lima) - and now we're about to have a Republican Federal House rep. I'll take it.
And, I'll take Charlene Lima! One of my favorite legislators. Perhaps my favorite. She's a champion of animals in this state. Always there for us.
The American people saw the results of MAGA, and now we've seen the results of 16 months of "progressive".
That is one helluva stark contrast. It's why Trump's popularity has actually risen to the point where he is now the most popular national politician in America.
The biggest difference right now between the two parties is the dynamic between their elites and their voters.
On The Republican side, the voters (MAGA) are (not so) slowly but surely taking over the Party. It will take another couple of cycles, but soon the old elite warmongering neocons will be gone for good. They're already a minority. (Albeit a larger one than we would prefer.) Hell, we even kicked out the Chamber of Commerce! We're balancing labor interests more into the mix. We're just not commies.
On the Democratic side, the elites have completely conquered their voters - but in the process have had to accept a much smaller slice of the demographic pie than they believed they were acquiring. Sure, they signal and genuflect their "Progressivism", but dark money and corporations still rule the roost with an iron fist.
The result is the old "Uniparty" politics you're describing, while once entirely accurate, is rapidly becoming an obsolete model.
Fung may have beaten Raimondo in the 2nd district in his run for governor. I however think many voters saw him as a check on the overwhelmingly Democrat RI General Assembly. That will not be the case for congress. A vote for Fung will equate to adding a seat to the Republican caucus in DC giving more power to the national party. The national Republican Party is completely out of step with most Rhode Islanders. I think this will be a big hindrance and albatross for Fung. The Democrat will relentlessly tie Fung to the radical extremist national GOP.
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