One of the biggest challenges in crafting strategy is deciding where you are going to stop; determining the limit of your advance. One of the apparent lessons the progressive project got from 2016 is resolve to drive as deep as possible if they ever seized power again.
Plans include expanding SCOTUS, mass citizenship to illegal aliens, a socialized medicine option, abolish 'fossil fuels' maybe ditching the electoral college. They'll make sure the populist rebellion is really dead by shooting, evisceration, burning and ploughing it with salt.
But this creates a planning weakness for the progressives because their stop line is determined by their desires, not by their strategic capabilities. One wonders to what extent their assessments are driven by multisource intelligence as opposed to wishful thinking.
One of the most interesting aspects of the 2020 elections is the progressives seem to have no plan for possible defeat. It is simply inconceivable given the correlation of forces they calculate they enjoy.
But inside the apparent progressive confidence in 2020 victory is a deep disillusionment in the former strategy of gradual but eventual takeover. The "long march through the institutions" has been replaced by the Big Push.
We were their project you see and they spent the last five decades trying to reform us. Now they've been rejected they'll spend the next five decades trying to extirpate us.
It's been fascinating watching the change of tone from the airport lounge nudge voice to the harsh "I'll learn ya!"
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