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In reply to the discussion: When a Centrist Independent is a more reliable vote for Democrats than, well, some Democrats... [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)but can be framed as such due to the opposition increasing it's Bircher quotient so that what used to be mainstream or even hard right of acceptable Republican discourse can now be seen as "moderate" Republicanism.
Now we see Heritage proposals move from deep within the Republican party to the point of maybe being to conservative for prime time to far too liberal to garner a single TeaPubliKlan vote despite Democrats accepting well over a hundred of the opposition's amendments to sweeten the pot.
That one flipped from Republican Regular/edging right wing all the way to Democratic Broadway to edging left wing considering the number of accommodations made to TeaPubliKlans that had to be made despite their refusal to provide any votes just to keep supposed Democrats on board (in addition to actual bribes and killing key features).