Personally I think we should reconcile ourselves with Republicans...
And we should do that right after ever nook and cranny in the Trump White House has been investigated probed and exposed. After every crime has been prosecuted and every criminal and traitor has been frog marched, we should extend our hand to the remaining republicans, and welcome them back into the fore.
It is absolutely true that we need cooperation in our government and among our citizenry in order to have a functioning republic. But we are not dealing with a normal political party. We are dealing with a party that acts like the enemy of our institutions, the enemy of our political system and the enemy of everyone not in their narrow authoritarian club. We have a party here that wouldn't condemn foreign interference in the 2016 election, and won't acknowledge the vote in the 2020 election. And we have a party so immune to facts, realities and the pain of its citizens, that it won't even acknowledge the dangers of a virus that has killed a quarter million of us.
We might want a functioning government and an end to hostilities, but the plain truth is that you cannot sign a peace treaty with an enemy who is still hell bent on destroying you. The Republicans need to be taught a lesson before they can be house broken. They need to be taught that they cannot win the game of American Democracy by impersonating Mussolini.
Even if Democrats don't take the senate, Biden has an opportunity in the next 4 years. He has the opportunity to appoint a cabinet who will root out bad actors and reassert the rule of law.
When the republicans have reformed their party back into something which is willing to recognize the rules, is willing to fairly compete for a share of the electorate that exists here in 2020, and is willing to represent more than 1% of America (plus a handful of powerful Russians) THEN we can welcome them back and work on cooperation.
The republicans will ultimately decide when Democrats can cooperate with them, not the other way around.
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Steve Schmidt said something about this. He said there are only two ways to deal with an enemy hell bent on your destruction, using WW2 as an analogy:
1. Attrition (European theater)
2. Complete dominance (Pacific theater)
I've jokingly referred to Denazification after WW2, but in truth it didn't work all that well.
