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Maybe, maybe not. The problem with being fine not 'losing power' but without actually doing anything that your constituents need while facing an uncompromising

Maybe, maybe not. The problem with being fine not 'losing power' but without actually doing anything that your constituents need while facing an uncompromising opposition that is trying to destroy the way of life of your constituents is that you end up losing most of the battles while losing any active support. When people only vote for you because they are afraid of the opposition and not because they think you are going to help them, then your motivations are not in line with the people who voted for you, especially if you can't even provide an effective resistance against the opposition when they blatantly do illegal things. At least with a MAGA enabler things can get bad enough that people might realize what they have to lose.

svara 1y ago
In a country as conservative as yours, if you're culturally in line with the 'coastal elites' (forgive my use of this term), you can't expect a stable majority by being uncompromising.
ben_w 1y ago
A former partner of mine* sometimes shared a political cartoon along the lines of this: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/the-art-of-political-compromise-brendan-loper.jpg https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu... Never could convince her that her team could do the same in the opposite direction of motion. * American but also actually a communist, not a Democrat