{"id":6183,"date":"2023-03-05T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2023-06-11T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:45:02","slug":"inexorable-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2023\/03\/05\/inexorable-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Inexorable Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>No Sunday story this week, just a look at recent history and the politics of the present and future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2008<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it was that the honored war hero, John McCain, lost the election.&nbsp;&nbsp;Or maybe, after the successful elections of 2000 and 2004 when Republicans used every trick to win, they finally failed (Every trick includes the &#8220;Brooks Brothers Riot&#8221; at the Miami-Dade Board of Elections to &#8220;Swift Boating&#8221; John Kerry).&nbsp;&nbsp;Or, of course, it might be that Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, the first man of color to reach that highest office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic celebration was immense.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was dancing in the streets.&nbsp;&nbsp;A new age dawned, an age that most political pundits (myself included) projected for some time in the late 2020\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;But it was 2008 and the future was here, now.&nbsp;&nbsp;A Black man was now President of the United States.  The ecstasy of one side was mirrored by the full disbelieve of the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t blame what happened next totally on racism.&nbsp;&nbsp;But clearly a massive grassroots movement grew to counter the Democratic victory, a force that even a divisive Hillary Clinton didn&#8217;t generate.&nbsp;&nbsp;In spite of the graceful concession speech by McCain, a whole new wave started.&nbsp;&nbsp;They called it the \u201cTea Party\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Union or Division&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The split between \u201cmainstream\u201d Republicanism, the party of Bush, Cheney, McCain and McConnell; and the raw anti-federalist populism of the Tea Party was evident in the 2008 Republican Convention.&nbsp;&nbsp;McCain, sensing the strong force of Obama\u2019s popularity, flirted with a \u201cNational Union\u201d ticket.&nbsp;&nbsp;His travelling companion and friend, conservative  Senator Joe Lieberman, former Democrat from Connecticut, was McCain\u2019s first choice for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination.&nbsp;&nbsp;It would have been a \u201cgame changer\u201d, the kind of shock to the political system that might stop a force like Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lieberman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President just eight years before, running with Gore in that ill-fated race.&nbsp;&nbsp;But he grew disenchanted with Democrats, who voted against him in the 2006 primary.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lieberman retained his Senate seat by running as an \u201cindependent\u201d, and still caucused with the Senate Democrats.&nbsp;&nbsp;But that primary defeat irrevocably split him from the Party.&nbsp;&nbsp;He would gladly join McCain in a center-conservative match against the more Progressive Obama and Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Palin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>McCain\u2019s advisors,  folks now familiar on cable-television like Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace, thought the base Republicans would never accept a former 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class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recession and Resentment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So maybe part of the energy in the \u201cTea Party\u201d movement was resentment.&nbsp;&nbsp;The national media made Palin into a punchline, but many conservative voters saw her as a fair balance to the more mercurial McCain.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Obama was also elected in the middle of the Great Recession, the financial meltdown of 2008.&nbsp;While the meltdown itself occurred in the Bush Administration, it was up to Obama to pick up the pieces.&nbsp;&nbsp;Deals were made to sustain the economy, helping big corporations and banks and Wall Street investment firms.&nbsp;&nbsp;The alternative was a full-blown depression, but many Americans thought, correctly, that they were unfairly bearing the burden of Wall Street\u2019s greed.&nbsp;&nbsp;A lot of Tea Party energy came from that.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tea Party was anti-tax, anti-government, and illiberal.&nbsp;&nbsp;They fashioned themselves 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technology to intricately divide political districts in order to maximize Republican representation.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was all about gerrymandering state legislative districts so that Republicans could gain the power to \u201cmap\u201d after the 2010 census.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And it worked:&nbsp;&nbsp;state after state  maximized Republican districts and minimized Democratic ones.&nbsp;&nbsp;While a state might be just a percentage or two majority Republican, the legislature would have super-majorities of Republican representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The formula was:&nbsp;&nbsp;say the right things to secure the \u201cTea Party\u201d base, then alter the machinery of government to maintain power.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And while the \u201cTea Party\u201d  is now subsumed into the current \u201cMAGA\u201d Republican Party, the lessons of 2009 and 2010 are not forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MAGA Ideology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Bannon, one of the principal theorists of \u201cMAGA\u201d thought, tried to use the Trump Administration to dismantle the Federal government.&nbsp;&nbsp; That didn\u2019t work out, so he altered strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;His current move is to try to takeover government from the \u201cbottom\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He encourages heavily financed conservative political action groups to put their money into local government campaigns.&nbsp;&nbsp;School Boards, city elections, and other local campaigns all of a sudden have  cash pouring in.&nbsp;&nbsp;Races that used to be a couple of thousand bucks in yard signs and literature, now costs tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for commercial media time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local school boards become high-finance campaigns.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the winners of many are the descendants of the Tea Partiers.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now they defend the \u201cold values\u201d of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are waging a new campaign, one to reverse the trends that allowed a nation to elect a Black 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taught Republicans the lesson:&nbsp;&nbsp;raise a \u201cpower fist\u201d for the Insurrectionists, and then play to the base fears of everyday citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;Use that fear to generate excitement and votes \u2013 then make sure the vote is fixed so that the minority can maintain control.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That control happens every day.&nbsp;&nbsp;It counters our changing society, with the \u201clast gasp\u201d of the white majority statistically slipping away.&nbsp;&nbsp;But it\u2019s really not about race, or gender, or the \u201cright to life\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;The goal is to keep political control and power.&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cissues\u201d are just tools to maintain fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a progressive perspective it might seem hopeless \u2013 but keep in mind that inexorable demographic changes are coming.&nbsp;&nbsp;America will be a &#8220;majority of minorities&#8221; nation within fifteen years.&nbsp;&nbsp;No amount of Red Mapping or electoral control can 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