{"id":38563,"date":"2023-04-05T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38563"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:23:30","slug":"margin-is-of-moderate-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/05\/margin-is-of-moderate-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Margin Is Of Moderate Importance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As I read Professor Richardson’s\u00a0statement\u00a0<\/a>that newly elected Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Protasiewicz, a de facto<\/em> ally to the Democrats, is estimated to have won her election by ten points or so, a figure I presume comes from behind the paywall at The New York Times<\/i><\/b>, I was at first somewhat disappointed, as this will be a 55% – 45% victory, which seems scant.<\/p>\n

But then it occurred to me that there’s an intellectual error in marrying a name too tightly to meaning. By this I mean, in this case, that political parties’ character changes over time; they are fluid. The Wisconsin Republicans of today are not those of 50 years ago, or, before that, of Senator McCarthy (R-WI).<\/p>\n

As the Wisconsin Republican Party continues to lose, the moderates will begin to learn that the nature of the culture of their party,\u00a0toxic team politics<\/b>, is the reason they’re losing. They’ll quietly rebel against its strictures by not voting for extremists; indeed, strident extremists may very well find themselves unceremoniously ejected and shunned.<\/p>\n

The entire leadership could be asked to leave.<\/p>\n

Will they try to change their spots? Sure. Such is the lure of power for the extremist. But they won’t succeed. There’s little point in concealing one’s extreme positions during a campaign, followed by attempting to consummate them after winning. Voters get angry.<\/p>\n

So I don’t see margins getting much larger for the Democrats, and that’s OK. I’d rather see a sane Republican Party that contributes to governing and not a Gingrich Doctrine dominated Party devoted to winning, regardless of the consequences for the Party’s makeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I read Professor Richardson’s\u00a0statement\u00a0that newly elected Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Protasiewicz, a de facto ally to the Democrats, is estimated to have won her election by ten points or so, a figure I presume comes from behind the paywall at The New York Times, I was at first somewhat \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38565,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38563\/revisions\/38565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}