Thread by @Gormogons

GP There was never peace in the Democratic coalition.

The Democrats are a loosely affiliated mutual support group of myriad leftist causes many of which are fundamentally incompatible at root.

This leads to internal conflicts which the party managed to paper over for years.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1504068789566062599

GP Recently, the Democrat political establishment has been unable to keep those internal coalition feuds from erupting into full public view.

Think Progressives' attempt to hold the BIF bill hostage until their multitrillion dollar BBB bill was passed.

GP Think black voters in 2008 giving Obama a more massive than usual victory in CA while simultaneously helping defeat a "legalize gay marriage" ballot initiative.

GP Think Hispanics who generally vote for the Democrats social welfare state but who have abandoned Democrats as the rich white urban and suburban "elites" crippled the middle and lower class economies and created chaos on the border abandoning the party for Trump.

GP It was always a matter of time until Democrats came apart at the seams.

Yet media's spent the last years pretending that the Republicans are the crazy party in decline.

Media is full of shit and wouldn't know reality if it bit them on their collective ass.

GP To be clear, there are batshit crazy Republicans. Republicans have been too eager to kowtow to Trump in exile in Florida. Republicans contributed to our recent profligate spending. Republicans have ignored their constituents in favor of DC cocktail party circuit opinions.

GP But when you compare the two parties, it sure seems to me that the Democrats are the party in grave trouble from their myriad internal rifts.

Republicans ain't exactly healthy, but they're better off than Democrats.

CZ Perhaps it's been this way since the 1860s, but most certainly it's recently apparent that the Dem party centers around "the opposite of what the GOP wants/likes" and little more.

This explains a lot of the disparities, internal conflicts, etc.

CZ They reflexively latch onto positions that exist solely to be oppositional. For example, repubs/cons were against gay marriage, so Dems suddenly supported it even though many/most Dem voters (even Obama and Biden) verbally opposed it originally.

CZ GOP opposed growing Islamism in the 1990s, so Dems embraced Islamic voters even though this betrayed their Jewish base, and courted gay voters despite this enraging their Islamic base, etc...just because the GOP liked/appeared to like a different way.

GP "We are for all Americans to be forced to marry gay Islamists who want to kill every Jewish person they find. Because equity."