Quote: Republican politicians don’t design policies to meet specific needs, or even to help their own working-class voters. They use policies as signaling devices — as ways to reassure the base that they are 100 percent orthodox and rigidly loyal.

Quote:(Democrats)They still have these grand spending ideas, but there is no longer any money to pay for them and there won’t be for decades. Democrats dream New Deal dreams, propose nothing and try to win elections by making sure nobody ever touches Medicare.

Q to the Fvvcking T and Amen Sister.

Quote:If there were a Hamiltonian Party, it would be offering a multifaceted reinvigoration agenda.

I find your detailed and well-reasoned argument both compelling and convincing. Do you have a button I could wear? /eyeroll