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Partisan stability requires realism and moderation

A lot of the problems the Republican party is facing today are due to it having been captured by its extremist wing. Democrats wanting to push the party further left (or people who are so far left they can't stand the Democratic party or its nominal leadership) would do well to remember that.

Many of those folks won't think the Republicans are facing any problems, since they nominally control so much of the federal government, so here are some of the problems Republicans are dealing with:

Left-wing liberals should continue to push for their views, and should absolutely continue to push back against this Administration, its apologists, and its defenders. But they also need to understand that all the Republican problems described above were self-inflicted and could have been avoided if the Republican party had put more authority in the hands of _moderates_. A Democratic party which builds the habit of denigrating and disenfranchising moderates for short-term base-consolidation risks undermining itself with the same problems.

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