It does but generally only when there's a major looming threat and/or we are asleep at the wheel and let them spread bullshit without challenge.

What they've failed to account for is the fact that women can surprisingly vote. And women are overwhelmingly not voting for the anti woman party. I suspect even the most vocal right wing ladies are closing the curtain and choosing not to vote against their own interests. Since right wing women love to secretly get abortions, it tracks.

Abortion is the issue that the right never actually wanted to win. It made for perfect performance art. You could sing all day about it and get the Christian vote and you never actually had to do a thing but just promise you would keep fighting the good fight. Except the super religious nuts used trump to get cultist judges in place and they actually fucking did it. Now they're dealing with the consequences of their own actions. Rich Republicans never wanted to get rid of abortions. They need abortions on account of all the women they impregnate that aren't their Christian wives. Sure they can still get them but it's suuuuper inconvenient to have to send the cleaning lady on spirit airlines to a blue state.

Ironically the best thing we have to counter it is immigration, but of course they're against that.

That's not a bad philosophy when all you care about is the moral victory. If you care about results however, there's little use in pearl clutching and acting offended by the idea of fascists doing fascism. It's what they do. I don't blame the crocodile for eating the baby, it's a dangerous reptile that needs to be put down, but it's predictable and doing exactly what it's programmed to do. I blame the adults who sat around and assumed they could allow the baby to wander that close to the water's edge without anything happening, all the while filling its' head with pro-crocodile propaganda. Individual humans are intelligent beings with agency, groups of humans are stupid and vulnerable to manipulation. Time to get your gun and go gator huntin'.

It's not that Republicans are not responsible for their actions. The issue is they can't be influenced to be less evil. They're the Borg, the Daleks, or Sauron's orc hordes. All we can do with them is try to defeat them.

Except mathematically, you can only gerrymander a given area so much before you start giving your opponent an advantage in other areas & they hit that limit around 2019. Voter suppression isn't really working for them lately either, going by the last few elections, and the anger regarding this is actually driving more people to the polls.

Floridian in a blood red county here. My kids & most of their friends are furious at the GOP & can't wait to vote.

their whole goal atm is to create enough doubt that they can throw the next presidential election to the courts or the house.

Stopping the Republicans is a worthy goal all by itself.

It is. But I'm still frustrated that the Democrats cannot put together a coherent platform for change that has any juice in it. Things are not getting better for people and need to change, but the Dems have not strongly pushed a real platform in a while now

A) I was referring to the tone deaf Supreme Court and their larger policy project.

B) The Democratic Party's leadership is not the same as it's voters. But, the fact that you're content with their only achievement being "stop the Republicans" proves my point.

Nothing would make the Democratic leadership happier then to continue to shift the party more to the right to "pickup GOP moderate voters", because ultimately they are all diehard neoliberals. This mentality let's them off the hook for not doing anything to advance larger leftist policies that their voters want, would help the country, but hurt their donors, as well as their own stock portfolios e.g. Universal Healthcare, Pro-Act, etc.

Republicans? No.

SCOTUS? Yes.

And as I said, they (SCOTUS) aren't tone deaf, they're handpicked Federalist Society religious zealots.

Isn't the article talking about a "tone deaf Supreme Court"?

Maybe they don't, but they have goals they want to achieve, by hook or by crook. While we can all agree that "The ends justify the means!" is a shitty moral philosophy, Democrats, and liberals in particular have this problem where they over-correct to the point where thinking about the ends at all is, in some vaguely reflexive kinda way, innately immoral. And when you spend all your time worrying about how to go about things instead of focusing on what things to go about, you end up not getting anything done because you're not willing to have an actual position.