Both parties play to the fringes, while the public supports voter ID. The public also supports some kind of AR-15 ban but Democrats know it can't work while they ignore crime and the border crisis.
"They’d rather play 'states rights' and 'stolen election' narratives to the 15 percent and conspiracy theorists. Maybe if the GOP takes the Senate back in 2022, they’ll get serious again."
If the GOP takes back the Senate next year, that will be an endorsement of the crackpot-ism that's infected the GOP, so it's less likely that they'll "get serious" and more likely that they will use their position to play culture warrior.
The GOP needs to lose a few more cycles to show that MTG, Cawthorn, and their ilk are losers politically before it has any hope of getting back to seriousness. Unfortunately, the recent Liz Cheney vote demonstrated that the GOP is hardly interested in providing a compelling and workable vision to counter that of the Democrats'.
"They’d rather play 'states rights' and 'stolen election' narratives to the 15 percent and conspiracy theorists. Maybe if the GOP takes the Senate back in 2022, they’ll get serious again."
If the GOP takes back the Senate next year, that will be an endorsement of the crackpot-ism that's infected the GOP, so it's less likely that they'll "get serious" and more likely that they will use their position to play culture warrior.
The GOP needs to lose a few more cycles to show that MTG, Cawthorn, and their ilk are losers politically before it has any hope of getting back to seriousness. Unfortunately, the recent Liz Cheney vote demonstrated that the GOP is hardly interested in providing a compelling and workable vision to counter that of the Democrats'.