Comment by avidiax

  > If the Republicans get voted out and become powerless, they (or the successor party) will have to be better to regain power.

has this been the trend over the last 40 years after getting the boot in 1992, 2008 and 2020?

the trend is that they become increasingly bold and activist to the point of conspiracy theories being mainstream (death-panels, vaccine chips, birthers, qanon etc etc)

and the other issue that remains is that when dems take over again, they mostly carry on with the republican predecessor's (de-regulation, welfare/healthcare cuts, iraq/afganistan, tarrifs, foreign relations etc) policies with a better and more polished look... then voters who expected better get fed up and bail and the seesaw rocks the other way again.

  > Anything else is some accelerationist nonsense.

i don't know, we are already quite accelerated at the moment no?