The Republicans have law, and the Supreme Court, on their side, and are 'committed to the death of the old order', that is, the LIEO. (You didn't even know there had been an old order here, much less what it was called, did you?)
The Antebellum Democrats had much the same on their side, in Lincoln's time, and were committed to the old 1776 liberal order. It was a liberal order, just as it is here now: "...while the Democrats felt the country could continue to go in a more liberal direction..." DK
Lincoln was a conservative, wanted to return to what he interpreted (in his Whig way) to be our founding first principles, and was committed to the death of the old liberal order of his time, ' a house divided cannot stand', just as much or more so than the new Republicans of today are committed to the death of the new LIEO.
Read Lincoln's remarks,
then read DK's:
"... it gives Congressional Republicans--who in turn are bound hand in foot to extreme conservative contributors led by the Koch brothers--the chance to undo what remains of the New Deal and the Great Society, if not the Progressive Era. In the Fourth Turning that began sometime in the last decade (in my opinion, in November 2000), the Republicans have generally been able to keep the initiative precisely because they were committed to the death of the old order, while the Democrats felt the country could continue to go in a more liberal direction..."
"Yes, the Republicans are making a mockery of the legislative process, holding no hearings, allowing almost no debate, and ignoring (presumably) the warnings of the Congressional Budget office. Yes, they are passing bills that the bulk of the American people oppose. But they can do it--and they don't care. They have won all the special House elections that have been held this year, and the Democrats do not appear to have much real traction in red states." DK
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