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I mean, I think your conclusion is, overall, long term correct, but the bolded part is fully within Blue control. They just have to stop using the courts as a cudgel on every issue and simply expecting rubberstamped approvals of every outlandish claim they bring. They dont need to pretend that Colorado has a single baker who happens to be a Christian. They dont need to bring Sarbanes-Oxley prosecutions against protestors who wandered into a federal building after police abandoned their posts. They just dont. But they can't help themselves.
Indeed not. But the broader point is that from the perspective of Red Tribe itself, there is no reason to accept compromise or any sort of strategy based on the long term. Our interests are best served by deriving maximum value from our temporary advantage, and then capitalizing on Blue resistance and defiance both in the past and present as a model for resistance and defiance of our own. Any path back to detente is a mirage.
And from the Blue perspective, as best I can model it, they are both correct and winning, and doing anything other than doubling down would be pointless compromise with evil. Red Tribe bigotry, superstition, and increasingly, criminality and treason generate no value that they recognize, while generating unbelievable amounts of harm. Just look at all that giant spike of murders in the last couple years, almost all of which gun control could have prevented. The arc of history is long, but bends toward justice, and they are on the right side of history. Progress is the whole point. Why sacrifice that progress to those who were never going to cooperate with it anyway? Especially when the Progress, once achieved, will greatly benefit those people anyway, once their defiance and their bitter, clinging grasp to their reactionary totems has been broken?
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