I’m concerned that they’ve already undermined trust in the elections so much that neither side will accept a losing outcome as legitimate. The larger attack on democracy has already succeeded. I hope I’m wrong.
I think the GOP’s support for trump has always been an endgame. Demographically speaking - their party was dying. This was always one last chance to drive the bus completely off the cliff - destroy education, trust in institutions, the US’s international cooperation from aid to NATO, wreck it all, if they can’t drive the bus forever then no one gets to.
Like we see from the files, it’s a cabal of evil fucks from a huge variety of motivations - racists, sexists, climate denial, oligarchs and techbros all lining up together to fix this whole liberal democracy problem.
yes, I do think they under-anticipate the way that ICE could be used surgically - just flipping a few elections could be crucial …
I’m concerned that they’ve already undermined trust in the elections so much that neither side will accept a losing outcome as legitimate. The larger attack on democracy has already succeeded. I hope I’m wrong.
I think the GOP’s support for trump has always been an endgame. Demographically speaking - their party was dying. This was always one last chance to drive the bus completely off the cliff - destroy education, trust in institutions, the US’s international cooperation from aid to NATO, wreck it all, if they can’t drive the bus forever then no one gets to.
Like we see from the files, it’s a cabal of evil fucks from a huge variety of motivations - racists, sexists, climate denial, oligarchs and techbros all lining up together to fix this whole liberal democracy problem.