Excellent thread and good description, but I have some conceptual issues.
https://twitter.com/davekarpf/status/1326171152864190464
If Republican politicians are following incentives to be on party-aligned TV and other party-aligned media; to raise money from party donors; and to win primaries - that's a story about a *strong* party, with politicians in service, we might say, to Hannity and donors.
It is also, alas, a highly dysfunctional party because it doesn't place winning elections and governing as top priorities. But that doesn't mean it's weak.
This is a huge problem! We usually think parties = democracy in large part because parties normally want to win elections, which translates into wanting to be popular, and therefore they adopt popular policy positions and try to govern well while in office. The GOP? Not.
And I strongly agree with @davekarpf - I don't know how to fix the GOP either. It appears to either be stable, or perhaps just in a perpetual spiral towards more and more dysfunction.
@davekarpf I have some guesses about how this might reverse, but no idea how to get from here to there. But yes: It predates Trump, it made Trump possible, Trump made it worse, and there's no sign anywhere of it getting better. /end
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