PROJECT 2028 FOR DEMOCRATS

[Celerity]

18. The Rethugs have been working towards this since late 1964, after they got smashed by LBJ.

You had the beginning of the rise of the RW Christians as a political force, and the rise of The Southern Strategy sprung to the fore, obsessed with using white grievance culture to pull the old racist, hate-filled Dixiecrat types (and not limited to only those in the deep South, eventually) into the Republican tent. Nixon started in, Reagan really took it to a new national level, and Trump has weaponised them and further radicalised them.

You said:

I refuse to accept that my party is that inept and weak.

That list is mostly blocked by legal/constitutional issues. I do, however, agree that some of the things will likely be stopped by moderate to conservative and/or institutionalist Democrats.

They will likely block (and this is even if we control POTUS, the Senate, and the House):

1. They will likely block SCOTUS expansion (and that thus stops the overturning of Citizens United, plus it means codification of abortion rights will be ruled as unconstitutional, as will a ban on gerrymandering, and The Fairness Doctrine if its extended to cable, satellite, and the internet.

2. Some conservadems will likely not support truly universal healthcare, will not support a 20 USD per hour minimum wage, taxing churches capping CEO pay to 35X lowest paid worker, likely will not support doing away with the filibuster, will not support ranked choice voting, and will not support taxing unrealised gains in many cases.

Multiple other things on the list would require constitutional amendments that will not occur:

Ending the Electoral College

Abortion rights

Term limits for SCOTUS

Mandatory universal Ranked Choice voting

Outlawing gerrymandering