Local local local

[Proud liberal 80]

Republicans realized that holding offices like county clerk, school board member, county commissioner, sheriff, city councilman, state senator, state representative, ‘dog catcher’ was where the real power was....a lot of the times republicans ran unopposed for these offices and were unqualified and super partisan....they got to make the local rules that affected federal offices.....this also allowed them to create a bench for higher office like the House, Senate, Governors, State Attorney Generals, etc....and their lack of qualifications and partisanship came with them...

We Democrats have been slow to catch up and are far behind

[AllaN01Bear]

1. my late mom said this .

im not going to paraphrase what the op said , but it is correct.

[LiberalArkie]

2. And they still say they are Democrats, but have Trump bumperstickers