I don't mean to seem like I'm BOTH SIDES-ing your point because I agree with it but I was shocked they didn't take more of a populist protect flyover country and such to attack what the Democrats did, which I mean is short-named Dodd-Frank which is enough of a warning sign, or the Obama Administration for going easy prosecution wise.
This was after Wall Street had already started doing the thing every major corporation does and back winners more than a specific party so it shouldn't have been a concern in that regard, and yet you never had any kind of GOP impetus to shit on what the Dems were doing other than to hand wave the whole thing away and say there was no problem, no crimes. They could have used the "few bad apples" excuse they're fond of with cops and then attack Obama for not stopping the "few bad apple banks", and hook up with the harder-line Dems to enact smaller but more targeted reforms/etc.
Actually...what am I saying, that worked out electorally very well for them on everything else too I guess.
And I guess the other strategy never works anyway does it, look at Rand and Ron Wyden's hook ups on civil liberties or whatever, both leaderships often join hands to shit on it and they can usually form a negative majority collectively.
Even this last primary it seemed like Trump and Rand were the only ones who would actually shit on Wall Street/etc. even if it was just part of Trump's whole everybody sucks thing more than ideological, Cruz would waffle and sometimes start to do a kind of Obama screwed this up angle. But that was about it. Same thing with the wars and stuff too. And yet Trump and Bernie were both shooting up in the polls using those attack lines, nobody else ever tried to steal it except Hillary trying some of Bernie's stuff. I'm still shocked that the other GOPers didn't fall all over each other to try and outflank Trump on immigration as quickly and more so. (Even if that was one I'd have preferred they hadn't, it was the one to win the primary they needed.)
It's amazing the GOP does so well when they're so stupid. All those candidates trying to fight over the same ground, even after Trump came in and grabbed 30% in the polls just by talking about a wall.
