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Absolutely wild that a handful of silly libertarians managed to unfuck once-doomed NH, but nobody has ever replicated their success.

There are so many right-wing nationalists out there, so many 2016 Trump supporters, and so many red states to choose from. And the GOP already has permanent majorities in the state legislatures. And yet, every organized group we've seen has just been antiphotogenic weirdos telling you to vote democrat. (Feds, sure, obviously, but where are the legitimate guys?)

It'd be fairly trivial to clear a state of migrants, get rid of the teachers' unions, and get rid of the troons. All 90-10 issues among R voters. And it's incremental, you can identify a few promising districts with bad representatives and organize an ousting.

The explanations I can think of are:
> People are legitimately less agentic now than they were a decade or so ago.

> GOP carpetbaggers in the South are much more entrenched against efforts at reform, and all 'safe seats' are too well-'fortified' to take, meaning that a formerly blue state really was the best candidate for liberation

> post-2016, the FBI and similar alphabet orgs have dropped any pretense of nonpartisanship and worked overtime to sabotage legitimate efforts at organizing.

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Absolutely wild that a handful of silly libertarians managed to unfuck once-doomed NH, but nobody has ever replicated their success.

There are so many right-wing nationalists out there, so many 2016 Trump supporters, and so many red states to choose from. And the GOP already has permanent majorities in the state legislatures. And yet, every organized group we've seen has just been antiphotogenic weirdos telling you to vote democrat. (Feds, sure, obviously, but where are the legitimate guys?)

It'd be fairly trivial to clear a state of migrants, get rid of the teachers' unions, and get rid of the troons. All 90-10 issues among R voters. And it's incremental, you can identify a few promising districts with bad representatives and organize an ousting.

The explanations I can think of are:
> People are legitimately less agentic now than they were a decade or so ago.

> GOP carpetbaggers in the South are much more entrenched against efforts at reform, and all 'safe seats' are too well-'fortified' to take, meaning that a formerly blue state really was the best candidate for liberation

> post-2016, the FBI and similar alphabet orgs have dropped any pretense of nonpartisanship and worked overtime to sabotage legitimate efforts at organizing.