How Much Can You Tolerate?

I see two key political questions now,  one for each party.

For Republicans the question is: "How much criminal behavior can you tolerate?" To date the answer is that professional Republicans can absorb with a grin any Trump crime, Constitutional violation or betrayal of Republican principles. That flabbiness cost them control of the House of Representatives. At the moment they seem willing to lose the Senate and the next Presidential election, rather than irritate their shrinking racist base. But is there a limit to what they will put up with? 

The extinction of the Republican party--already beginning in California--is one natural limit. But is there a limit short of extinction, where the party leadership stops eating clay and survives?

For Democrats the question is: "Can the Corporate Democrats, who run the party, accept independents and the New Deal types like AOC and Bernie Sanders and unite the 70% of voters who demand health care, climate control, equal rights and a safety net?" 

What I see at the moment is Wall Street Democrats gearing up for war with independents and the progressive half of their own party. So far they do not intend to share the political power that has made them rich. But that may change.

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