You my man, are the consummate RINO. Where the hell were you between 2016-2020? Resist, Never-Trumper, BLM and Antifa sympathizer okay by you?
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” she said at a
rally in Los Angeles on Saturday. “And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
This is how we got here. You can take your "unity" and shove it back where the sun doesn't shine. Sorry, this is not a one way street.
I am indeed the consummate moderate Republican. I am socially liberal and believe that government can have a positive moderate role. I distrust concentrations of power - whether it be teachers unions to hold back communities of color, police unions to protect Chauvin, Amazon, or Facebook to de-platform Trump. I am for a strong position on crime, but believe that misdemeanors such as Marijuana use (which I will not use, and frankly hate) are not worth criminalizing. I believe in strong borders.
What you describe is absolutely what is wrong in politics and the tone of the day. Antifa? The mayors of Portland and Seattle should be ashamed of what they have left their city become. Never-Trumpism blinded the NYT and others to over-look the lab leak theory. On BLM, I think this country has left our black brothers and sisters behind. On the other hand, BLM is founded on Marxist theory which again, goes DIRECTLY against my distrust of concentration of power. What Republicans should do is call out, consistently and relentlessly those items. People in the center watch.
I think Trump and Steve Bannon reframed much of today's politics. For example, Trump called out China as the existential threat.
My consistent critique on Trump was that he was undisciplined. He alienated many in the center who if you take out, Ghost, to your point, "the mean Tweets", would be a Trump supporter. It was completely unnecessary. He could have had all of the impact without it.
Where Ghost and I mainly differ
is what is easier to do: ask one guy, Trump, to be more disciplined, or ask 10M+ people (or in this case 45,000 would would have flipped the election) to "get over it (it = Mean Tweets)?"
Ghost - you continue, rightly, to focus on the practical considerations. Here is a practical consideration: what is easier - convincing 10M people or just one, Trump?
If you want to know where my politics are, look at DeSantis and Tim Scott. I voted for John James for Senate in Michigan over Gary Peters.