Adam Kotsko offers as a "thought experiment" a heighten-the-contradictions scenario that would result in the "liquidation of the Democrats." And as with all such scenarios, there are several missing links in the causal chain -- which goes, roughly, from "electing a few social democratic members...
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I have to agree with Michael against Chris Clarke that I don't see any basis for the assertion that the post-1992 Republican strategy was to "find out what the disaffected.