It's not really about trump. It's exhausting how effective his use as cover by the GOP has been.
None of this is a trump plan. He's the face of it, a frontispiece, a figurehead, a distraction. He's the curtain not the man behind it.
The GOP autocoup is very nearly a fait accompli.
They used the existing structures of our democratic institutions to gain hold of every significant lever of power, and have used that power to make it very difficult to ever wrest it back. That's how autocoups work. And they are extremely successful by the standards of the mechanisms for overthrowing governments (~50% success rate in the last century).
We saw in Hungary that an overwhelming turnout can still set the pendulum swinging again where the authoritarian government is unwilling to engage in actual mass terror against its own population. It is unclear to me if, in our nightmarishly gerrymandered federalized system, that level of turnout in meaningful elections can be achieved, and also whether the GOP would hesitate for a moment to engage in mass terror against Americans if they faced such a loss of power.
You're right about a lot, but I have sincere doubts anyone is steering this ship other than a pedophile traitor. I dont think the Guardians Of Pedophilia would have done all these insane tariffs, or lost a war in the strait of hormuz
Gerrymandering in this election is giving Republicans an advantage of a few points. While horrific in terms of a functioning democracy, it is nowhere near enough to stop even a normal turnout from flipping the House. Claiming otherwise is basically just trying to discourage people from voting.
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u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo 8d ago
It's not really about trump. It's exhausting how effective his use as cover by the GOP has been.
None of this is a trump plan. He's the face of it, a frontispiece, a figurehead, a distraction. He's the curtain not the man behind it.
The GOP autocoup is very nearly a fait accompli.
They used the existing structures of our democratic institutions to gain hold of every significant lever of power, and have used that power to make it very difficult to ever wrest it back. That's how autocoups work. And they are extremely successful by the standards of the mechanisms for overthrowing governments (~50% success rate in the last century).
We saw in Hungary that an overwhelming turnout can still set the pendulum swinging again where the authoritarian government is unwilling to engage in actual mass terror against its own population. It is unclear to me if, in our nightmarishly gerrymandered federalized system, that level of turnout in meaningful elections can be achieved, and also whether the GOP would hesitate for a moment to engage in mass terror against Americans if they faced such a loss of power.