As far as politics is concerned, though, Democratic candidates don't bother going after the core Republican base since Reagen. It's the 1/3 of the country they don't even bother trying to get. It's always the middle., after Reagan stole a lot of them. 

And more and more of the middle are registering as Independents because of "pox on both your houses" of agitprop, and cancelling over various purity tests.

And one other thing: I know how much it angers you that we have so many stupid people in this country amounting to almost 1/3.

But they are citizens and the program is we are all supposed to be e pluribus unum. Somehow they have to be lived with.

This is why I always welcomed Flavius' input here, he knew and talked with and was friendly with conservatives on a personal bases.

I don't see the further stoking of this "lock em up", us vs. them, "they're all stoopid kool-aid" drinkers" thing working well so far.

I do see signficant potential in making everything-he-touches-dies Trump a common-good enemy though. There's not been an example in my lifetime of so many Republicans and former Republicans working to elect a Democrat president. A reminder that Geo. W. Bush has endorsed Biden.

Don't look gift horses in the mouth and stop stoking differences, is what I think.