There is a political realignment going on. Been happening for some time. The naive Left and the crazy Right are being cleaved off the edges of our body politic. The neo marriage of neocon and neoliberal is creating a lockstep, authoritarian corporate centrist party.
This Just Came Down From Corporate:
You Will Vote for Hillary
You Will Fear Russia
Trust the CIA
Back in 2012, I predicted the Republicans would run populist as a result of Democratic fealty to their corporate sponsors (ACA, GS Econ Cabinet, All of the above Oil Policy, no comfy shoes for Madison, WI, etc). I saw a coalition coming on of corporate centrists: Orrin Hatch and Howard Dean, Olympia Snowe & Biden, and (I must confess, though, I didn't go this far) Hillary and Kissinger or Hillary & Kagen. /shudder
So 2016 happened, and this is truth. We have a completely new political realignment. Neocons and neoliberals are lockstep, kicking out the paleocons, peaceniks, and socialists who have some sort of problem with Perpetual War, Inc.
We are left with a single party in the center comprised of Joe Scarborough and Hillary Clinton. John McCain & Keith Olbermann. It is a nascent and tenuous alliance, but they are completely operating with the same facts and huck similar values.
Democrats are attacking Drumpf from the Right on economics and foreign policy.
The authoritarianism coming from the political Establishment at this moment is palpable. And the neocon and neoliberal marriage with spy agency support is terrifying to contemplate.
Who is going to stop Joe McCarthy? Certainly nobody from the corporate center.