The "moderation advantage" may be a delusion. . .

[Wounded Bear]

9. Extremism on the right makes moderation by Dems unworkable...

M$Media have been ignoring right wing extremism so long it has devolved into "populism" which almost always provides a false sense of majority.

American democracy has long been balancing on a knife edge of minority governance because of our three way split of conservative, progressive, and WGAS (who gives a shit? ). That split has existed since the beginning. The Revolutionary Was was won by basically one-third of the population in the colonies. One third was "patriots." One third was loyalist. One third said "Don't bother me." Whenever we've attempted to whittle that down to a two way split a shitstorm erupted. It happened in the 1860's and it's germinating now. Would hate things to go violent, but the administration is continuing to poke the beast with its illegal deployment of troops in the streets.

We really need more people admitting that the right side of our political universe is highly partisan and militant.