When Democrats get back into power, there is going to be a huge — entirely justified — desire to use that power to remedy all the ways the GOP cheated.
As outlined in books like It’s Time to Fight Dirty, we are going to have to do things like change the number of justices on the court, grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico whether the GOP likes it or not, etc.
Now the issue is that this is going to be spun by the other side as illegitimate, and Fox/Breitbart/etc. are going to rev the base up into a paroxysm of hatred.
Obviously they are insane and hypocritical. But they are going to breed more and more hatred. The country is going to be split apart more and more.
In the long run this appears to be a serious problem. If it gets extreme enough, it could lead to domestic terrorism and even civil war.
How are we going to bring the country back together?
Is a scorched earth “let’s take the gloves off with the Republicans” policy going to do that? It very well may. Maybe we have to show them that Democrats are strong too, and that will lead to more trust.
But if not, how do we fix the situation and get back to a place where the majority of the country believes we can work together?
Or is this whole problem overblown?