>>2716305>delegitimize liberalism as an "opposition" in the USA>>2716389>The exact opposite is happening. The midterms will be a blue wave.It's really common on the left for people to have a view that the Republicans winning and delegitimizing the liberals will be good for the left, but I don't know where that idea or theory of politics comes from. Or is it just a vibe that people pick up? Because I live in part of the U.S. that has had total Republican dominance and a delegitimized liberal "opposition" my entire life, and there is no far left alternative (a PSL chapter in Houston doesn't count, and even that political subculture here seems much smaller than states with comparable populations like California and New York), you just have widespread apathy among the non-conservatives, just getting people to vote for liberals is an enormous challenge, and they haven't demonstrated much interest in anything else either. You also end up getting Obama-like normie libs like Beto O'Rourke emerging as an avatar of what it means to push the Overton window of what's possible.
But maybe that's all a reflection of the specific political culture of the state, and it's unique and I can't generalize that to other places. Maybe that's true. The only alternative that has really appeared in politics so far this century was a Jewish hippie country-western singer (this persona made more sense in the 1970s) who ran a campaign that was like a combination of quasi-libertarianism and satirical politics, like Lord Buckethead in the U.K., promising to decriminalize marijuana, legalize gay marriage, and send thousands of National Guard troops to the border to halt illegal immigration (but with assistance from bribed Mexican military officers dubbed the Five Mexican Generals Plan).