I don't know to what extent there are established precedents for when a topic is worthy of a mega-thread, but this decision seems like a big deal to me with a lot to discuss, so I'm putting this thread here as a place for discussion. If nobody agrees then I guess they just won't comment.
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If this were reframed as a positive thing, then I think prominent Democrats would agree. Not too long ago Obama staffers and Democratic politicians were evangelists for The Emerging Democratic Majority. The larger point of which is that with a bit of demographic change the Democrats would have a permanent electoral majority. They were saying they would then transform America more than FDR did. They were on the cusp of total permanent victory.
But then that didn't happen. Not at all. Extrapolating from a few early-2000s demographic and voting trends was invalid. Turns Hispanics aren't that reliable of Democrats.
Whoopsie-daisey.
And the stuff about the youth getting out the vote and sweeping away Republicans on the national stage was an even worse prediction.
But to be fair, they argue for this as them winning fair elections. It's a positive aspirational goal from their point of view. So they see this as a good, valid, democratic way by which America will enter into the blissful state of one party Democratic rule.
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