The thing is, there was no "good" pick. The Reagan coalition--especially as updated by Rove--was untenable from the start. Just as the Roosevelt Coalition was, except perhaps even more so in some ways. The Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s unraveled the Roosevelt Coalition, and Nixon took advantage of it, as well as Reagan and Rove. But with each successive iteration, it became more and more untenable, and now its different elements are carping at each other--like a bad marriage, when the spouses look at each other, and say, "I don't know who you are anymore."
The problem, though, is, it has left the country with massive problems. If the Democrats can somehow fix the problems, the GOP elements will have to find their own little group and try to figure out how to survive, if that is even possible politically. If they can't fix the problems, the different elements of the Democratic Party will be in an analogous position.
And the country will be f_cked. Completely f_cked. |
