Two malleable useful idiots

[RickeyM]

No, those people are lost. Some may be reached but not enough to matter. The GOP long game has tapped into a large segment of the populace and convinced them to swallow the "blue pill". It's going to take several generations for their sort of thinking to be bred out of the populace or at least their effects minimized. The Democrats need to keep the base and independents energized and engaged which requires giving them something to be energized and engaged about. We outnumber them only if we get the numbers to the polls. The dangerous part is having a large segment of people who believe they're being left behind, excluded. That leaves them open to being radicalized and thus dangerous.