Peering into the future Republican House and we see news items defining the divisions of the party. In a past iteration we kind of see markers of “social conservative”, ” fiscal conservative”, “defense hawk”, tending to be able to coalesce around tax cuts, court appointments, and saber rattling. In the current alignments we run into a bit of a dinger with the last one, and see some articles on the troubles of liberal anti-war Democrats and shaky alliances with loathsome isolationist Republicans — the problem being they tend to be the most aligned with Trump and viewed as his ” advance team”, and… Didn’t Putin practically handpick ‘im? As too there was always the more conciliating “moderate” versus “conservative” game and battling whatever this entails.

Today it appears that the lines now get redrawn. Because — okay, there is that defense division, sure. And maybe we even still have some mod v con thing going. But on this right flank, things become dicey. You have social conservatives arrayed alongside fiscal conservatives, and as always the questions of educational curriculum get sliced into the former’s raison d’etre. But then, flanking to their right, meehaps with blurred divisions — trolls. Not social cons, just… Trolls. Throw out things from qanon message boards for the Hell of it. High driving each other for any outrageous statement that gets mocked on SNL. Despite the fact that some narratives hold that the other divisions lack policies, that isn’t really true — but it is with the troll division.

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