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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:28 PM Apr 2018

The Democratic Civil War Is More Civil Than War

https://politicalwire.com/2018/04/17/the-democrats-civil-war-is-more-civil-than-war/

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Francis Wilkinson: “Some civil war talk is likely a product of bothsidesism — the desire of pundits and reporters to find symmetry in increasingly asymmetrical political parties. Republicans have accommodated themselves to chaos and corruption so surely the Democrats must be ready to combust, too.”

“Except that the Democratic Party is not much like the Republican Party. As Lara Putnam and Theda Skocpol wrote in a much-discussed article about surging grassroots Democratic action in suburbs and small cities, sightings of a Democratic Tea Party, let alone a smash-everything Trumpist-style rampage, are largely chimerical. The movement against Trump is led by plenty of level-headed people, especially women.”

“The chaotic divider of America will remain a uniter of Democrats as long as he is in office. If there is a Democratic civil war to come, it is off in the distance — hopefully a brighter place — in which Trump and his coterie have met whatever fate awaits them.”

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The Democratic Civil War Is More Civil Than War (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2018 OP
The difference at this point is fundamental: guillaumeb Apr 2018 #1
But there are no headlines in civil disagreement gratuitous Apr 2018 #2

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
1. The difference at this point is fundamental:
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:30 PM
Apr 2018

The GOP is a one party organization in a 2 major party system. The GOP has no interest in compromise.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. But there are no headlines in civil disagreement
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:09 PM
Apr 2018

So the popular media has to do its best to try to strike sparks from disagreements in the Democratic camp, because that's where the ratings are. Also, it will then conform to the favored "both sides" narrative, wringing symmetry out of an asymmetrical situation. Winning!

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