Good article, However, I noticed you didn't reference the BAMNites (By Any Means Necessary people) and skipped the long term effect ANTIFA supply shock troops at Democratic protests turning the "regular" people at the protests into likely doers of violence.
What we have seen happen in the Democratic party is much like what happens in a family when the mother don't teach her kids proper hygiene. (Or, talks a good hygiene game but doesn't enforce proper hygiene rules by making the kid go wash up.) "When you get a wound, you apply soap and water." That pretty much fixes most wound problems, even on largish wounds. But if the kid doesn't wash the wound or just use water instead of soap and water, the wound festers. Eventually it's time for a visit to the Emergency Room. Maybe even hospitalization.
A cynic who went to college in the 1960s with hippy kids who didn't wash much might argue that the same people who had problems taking baths in their youth are now old people calling for violence, possibly willing to do the violence themselves. Actually, they've been calling for violence all along but now it's clear even to them that "moderate violence" (violence done by other people) isn't going to work so they need "serious violence" (violence they do themselves).
Maybe the concealed carry people were right all along: there are so man crazy people willing to do violence themselves that having a gun may be the only possibility of safety. Scary thought for a man who decided he wasn't trustworthy enough to carry a gun daily.
1) as Scott mentioned, rightists often have something to lose while leftists often don’t; that changes the incentives significantly
2) Leftists control all the institutions and their footsoldiers know that as a consequence anything short of murder will get a slap on the wrist; rightists don’t have that luxury
Multiple reasons. Suburban, exurban, and rural flight waves over the last 60 years. Is suburban, exurban, and rural life perfect? Absolutely not. Many problems exist. Many of which spillover from leftist controlled urban areas. However the problems of leftist overreach and major leftist excess are somewhat less prominent where most of our base lives in suburban, exurban, rural areas. Secondly an overwhelming supermajority of our legislators at the federal, state, and local levels are country club establishment RINOs. They have been given campaign money by their donors to not rock the boat on any cultural or social issue that the conservative base cares about, and only take actions that will help their donors business interest or foreign policy interest. The one positive of the Trump era is that they now need to from time to time throw conservatives a bone so they are not rejected in the primaries. One of Trump‘s weaknesses is that he tends to almost always endorse these country club establishment Republicans at both the federal and state level during primaries. However, I don’t want to criticize Trump and everything that he has done for conservatives considering before Trump came along the Republican Party was about to become like the Conservative Party in the UK. Trump ran on the exact opposite platform of the 2012 republican autopsy and has ended up winning two terms as president for the Republican Party. In the future, Trump‘s biggest contribution will probably be moving the Republican Party away from Neo-con RINO country club establishment Republican presidential candidates, like W Bush/McCain/Romney, and laying the ground work for a much more conservative successor and Republican Party that will come. As living conditions keep getting worse and worse, the base of the Republican Party will become less impotent and in turn the donor class and their country club establishment politicians will have to approve more and more conservative policy or risk being thrown out for a very conservative leader that would make Trump look like Obama in comparison. Edit: I left out Trump‘s biggest legacy item which is probably permanently saving the judiciary from far left control. Trump will have appointed hundreds of circuit court and local district court federal judges and maybe even five Supreme Court justices by the time he leaves office if Alito and Thomas retire before the end of Trump‘s term
Good article, However, I noticed you didn't reference the BAMNites (By Any Means Necessary people) and skipped the long term effect ANTIFA supply shock troops at Democratic protests turning the "regular" people at the protests into likely doers of violence.
What we have seen happen in the Democratic party is much like what happens in a family when the mother don't teach her kids proper hygiene. (Or, talks a good hygiene game but doesn't enforce proper hygiene rules by making the kid go wash up.) "When you get a wound, you apply soap and water." That pretty much fixes most wound problems, even on largish wounds. But if the kid doesn't wash the wound or just use water instead of soap and water, the wound festers. Eventually it's time for a visit to the Emergency Room. Maybe even hospitalization.
A cynic who went to college in the 1960s with hippy kids who didn't wash much might argue that the same people who had problems taking baths in their youth are now old people calling for violence, possibly willing to do the violence themselves. Actually, they've been calling for violence all along but now it's clear even to them that "moderate violence" (violence done by other people) isn't going to work so they need "serious violence" (violence they do themselves).
Maybe the concealed carry people were right all along: there are so man crazy people willing to do violence themselves that having a gun may be the only possibility of safety. Scary thought for a man who decided he wasn't trustworthy enough to carry a gun daily.
Why is the right so impotent in the US. How can we change this?
Two things:
1) as Scott mentioned, rightists often have something to lose while leftists often don’t; that changes the incentives significantly
2) Leftists control all the institutions and their footsoldiers know that as a consequence anything short of murder will get a slap on the wrist; rightists don’t have that luxury
Multiple reasons. Suburban, exurban, and rural flight waves over the last 60 years. Is suburban, exurban, and rural life perfect? Absolutely not. Many problems exist. Many of which spillover from leftist controlled urban areas. However the problems of leftist overreach and major leftist excess are somewhat less prominent where most of our base lives in suburban, exurban, rural areas. Secondly an overwhelming supermajority of our legislators at the federal, state, and local levels are country club establishment RINOs. They have been given campaign money by their donors to not rock the boat on any cultural or social issue that the conservative base cares about, and only take actions that will help their donors business interest or foreign policy interest. The one positive of the Trump era is that they now need to from time to time throw conservatives a bone so they are not rejected in the primaries. One of Trump‘s weaknesses is that he tends to almost always endorse these country club establishment Republicans at both the federal and state level during primaries. However, I don’t want to criticize Trump and everything that he has done for conservatives considering before Trump came along the Republican Party was about to become like the Conservative Party in the UK. Trump ran on the exact opposite platform of the 2012 republican autopsy and has ended up winning two terms as president for the Republican Party. In the future, Trump‘s biggest contribution will probably be moving the Republican Party away from Neo-con RINO country club establishment Republican presidential candidates, like W Bush/McCain/Romney, and laying the ground work for a much more conservative successor and Republican Party that will come. As living conditions keep getting worse and worse, the base of the Republican Party will become less impotent and in turn the donor class and their country club establishment politicians will have to approve more and more conservative policy or risk being thrown out for a very conservative leader that would make Trump look like Obama in comparison. Edit: I left out Trump‘s biggest legacy item which is probably permanently saving the judiciary from far left control. Trump will have appointed hundreds of circuit court and local district court federal judges and maybe even five Supreme Court justices by the time he leaves office if Alito and Thomas retire before the end of Trump‘s term