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For Brianna and Peter- had to break it to you, but you are republicans. By the next cycle, the republicans will be identical to the democrats, circa 1980-1999.

I'm surprised you didn't note what Trump did was similar to Clinton's "triangulation" strategy in 1992 and 1996 to take Republican positions to moot the advantage on popular issues.

The democrats will never change until they break the public employee unions. Given that group's penchant for taking up Progressive causes (why does Randy Weinberge rant like a lunatic on every woke issue?) and examples like Chicago issuing a multi-billion dollar bond to fund teachers' unions pensions, they will be an anchor on democrats' election prospeccts. However, the pull of these unions with their pay to play strategy of funding democrat politicians will be much too strong to overcome. I expect the republicans to demagogue the pension issue in the next election cycle (social security is going broke and public employees retire after 25 years at 75% of salary) to great effect. It will take them a generation to make the change and gain back public trust.

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