Donald Trump and his closest allies are planning a radical reshaping of American government. Here are some of the policy stakes if he regains power in 2025.
Additionally terrifying repercussions of abstaining are the down-ballot effects. There are 33 Senate seats on this November’s ballot. If Trump wins due to Democrats abstaining, Republicans will likely control Congress too.
Look what’s happening all over the world. All over Europe, South America, Asia, North America…all over the world the far right is surging in popularity. I can’t remember which historian said it, but they pointed out that humans seem to go through a cycle every 60-80 years of electing fascists. We’re back in that period and it’s bad. This is much, much bigger than the democrats dropping the ball.
Agreed. I could see him and his disgusting underlings trying to exact revenge on all blue areas in general, and very specific citizens in particular. There is mention of trying to use military force in Democratically controlled cities, but if that is allowed to happen, we are in very, very dangerous territory and that’s likely to be the spark that sets off much worse things. Remember - they wanted to punish blue areas during a fucking pandemic and dole out things like ventilators based on loyalty to the annoying orange.
Also when it comes to punishing entire sets of people, I believe donnie and his team were thinking that covid would impact urban (read: POC and Democratic) areas more so than the rural (read: white cons) areas and so their concern about covid was tempered by that. So sad it did not work out quite that way, but they seemed to have their hopes up.
Then there is the targeting journalists for prosecution thing - we should not forget that he wanted to be able to do something about SNL making fun of him - if he’s allowed to do this to journalists, we are well and truly fucked and we are basically Putin’s Russia at that point.
This is fucking dark…but very possible. Everyone needs to fucking vote against this prick and his cronies. He won’t live another cycle anyway.
Additionally terrifying repercussions of abstaining are the down-ballot effects. There are 33 Senate seats on this November’s ballot. If Trump wins due to Democrats abstaining, Republicans will likely control Congress too.
If they change how the government works, they won’t need him anymore anyways.
Honestly, I’m not sure it’s dark enough. I genuinely do think this is only scratching the surface.
I think there’s a lot of naïveté out there amongst democrats. They don’t realize the stakes and are unwilling to take the necessary measures.
Look what’s happening all over the world. All over Europe, South America, Asia, North America…all over the world the far right is surging in popularity. I can’t remember which historian said it, but they pointed out that humans seem to go through a cycle every 60-80 years of electing fascists. We’re back in that period and it’s bad. This is much, much bigger than the democrats dropping the ball.
Agreed. I could see him and his disgusting underlings trying to exact revenge on all blue areas in general, and very specific citizens in particular. There is mention of trying to use military force in Democratically controlled cities, but if that is allowed to happen, we are in very, very dangerous territory and that’s likely to be the spark that sets off much worse things. Remember - they wanted to punish blue areas during a fucking pandemic and dole out things like ventilators based on loyalty to the annoying orange.
Also when it comes to punishing entire sets of people, I believe donnie and his team were thinking that covid would impact urban (read: POC and Democratic) areas more so than the rural (read: white cons) areas and so their concern about covid was tempered by that. So sad it did not work out quite that way, but they seemed to have their hopes up.
Then there is the targeting journalists for prosecution thing - we should not forget that he wanted to be able to do something about SNL making fun of him - if he’s allowed to do this to journalists, we are well and truly fucked and we are basically Putin’s Russia at that point.