#Republicans fear their base. #Democrats hate their base.

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-rights-hardliners-would-rather-lose-elections-than-culture-wars-bc4a1ae3867a

#liberalism #leftism #materialism #deliverism

#USA #GOP #DemocraticParty #Politics #Deliverism: "For all the failings of the GOP's radical wing (and there are many such failings), there is this one virtue: they get stuff done. The GOP has taken massive swings – seizing the courts, dismantling the administrative states, stacking elections, and siphoning off trillions for its donors:
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The Democrats don't need to copy the GOP's abandonment of material policy for ideological hardlines. Indeed, it shouldn't: when they go low (culture war bullshit), we go high (delivering real benefit to voters). But the Democrats' left wing could sure stand to learn a trick or two from the GOP's right – namely, how to turn "I want to do it, now go away" into "I want to do it, now make me do it.""

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/#triangulation

What if Obama had enlisted his grassroots, summoning up a left-wing answer to the #TeaParty that turned the GOP into the party of no (including no compromises)? What if he'd jettisoned comity, appointed new judges, sent every executive order the Supreme Court rejected back to the court to be struck down again?

What if he'd governed like Lincoln, or FDR:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/20/judicial-equilibria/#pack-the-court

There's a name for this kind of politics: it's called #Deliverism:

https://prospect.org/politics/case-for-deliverism/

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Entry from my "goodpolicy" items: the concept that David Dayen calls #Deliverism