Kathy Yes! Totally right!  So how do we change this?For example:Do you know what would happen to most legislators in Texas if they pushed laws controlling guns? ANY laws?They'd be looking at being "primaried" next election, because the gun lobby would cook up a new, polished & well-funded Republican candidate, and they'd be GONE in May, not November. That, and the highly motivated electorate here would be grabbing the keys to the truck and lining up to vote them out!Any particular issue aside, why can't the Dems duplicate this???  The Trump-crazy conservatives have gotten away with reversing Roe vs. Wade, and weren't seriously punished in the midterms. I'd really like to open the NYT and find a columnist with a road map that shows the Democratic party, who holds a narrow-but-widely-acknowledged-majority in the US, how to MOTIVATE poor/minority/middle-class voters to stop the Republicans.

Kathy Yes! Totally right!  So how do we change this?For example:Do you know what would happen to most legislators in Texas if they pushed laws controlling guns? ANY laws?They'd be looking at being "primaried" next election, because the gun lobby would cook up a new, polished & well-funded Republican candidate, and they'd be GONE in May, not November. That, and the highly motivated electorate here would be grabbing the keys to the truck and lining up to vote them out!Any particular issue aside, why can't the Dems duplicate this???  The Trump-crazy conservatives have gotten away with reversing Roe vs. Wade, and weren't seriously punished in the midterms. I'd really like to open the NYT and find a columnist with a road map that shows the Democratic party, who holds a narrow-but-widely-acknowledged-majority in the US, how to MOTIVATE poor/minority/middle-class voters to stop the Republicans.

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