dw93
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« on: December 17, 2021, 08:56:18 PM » |
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« edited: December 17, 2021, 09:03:43 PM by dw93 »
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1948 might've, as darklordoftech said, been a poisoned chalice so the GOP might've dodge a bullet, even if 48 wasn't on the same level of poisoned chalice as 1928 or even 1976 or 2004. As for 1960, while the Democrats did successfully expand the social safety net and build a liberal majority on the Supreme Court that arguably lasted through the 1970s, the GOP benefited from the backlash of the 60s and would become (Presidentially starting in 1968 or 1980, congressionally in 1994) the dominant party.
As awful as losing 2016 was, at least saw the Democrats manage to break through heavy gerrymandering and retake the House and also gave some in the party delusional about "muh demographics" and "muh blue wall" a much needed kick in the ass, and it's too early to comment on 2020.
So that leaves 2000, the one election loss that had absolutely no silver lining for the losing party. The majority of Bush's policies, again as darklordortech said, had a very lasting impact. The Bush Presidency was also the point where the Supreme Court really started to go hard right with his replacing O'Connor with Alito, and I'm of the firm belief that you'd never have a President Trump without a President George W. Bush, as Bush dumbing down the Presidency, the GOP, and the country as a whole played an extremely key role in making a Trump Presidency possible.
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