I want them to weep when they lose. I want them to sit there, crying into their celebratory wines, knowing that they will never have power and that they will be a footnote in history. I want them laid low, to suffer the pains of knowing that they have lost, forever.
I don't like putting it this way, but everyone needs to learn how to hate. It was great when we didn't have to, and could imagine it was all a civil debate. But that's donezo; survival of democracy requires treating its enemies with just raw contempt, rage, scorn, and yes, hatred.
I also don't think the Democratic Party has it in them, tbh. Maybe they'll win anyway, maybe I'll be proven wrong. But there are very, VERY few elected Democrats who really seem to hate Trump and his cronies.
They still crave bipartisan comity with people who'd gleefully see them (and us) dead. That concerns me way more than our guy appearing out of it the other night.
Also, I think a lot of them are genuinely pretty nice, well-meaning people and their hearts are too soft for the degree of hate that Republicans in this country deserve.
Honestly, I'm too soft.
i gotcha and i dont disagree, i just sometimes hafta fight it bc of my jedi teachings so i try to keep hate as a last resort. its just star war semantics so y'know
This is not the time for curling up in a fetal position and searching for a way to convince the right that they are being too mean and forceful over a cup of tea.
If people aren’t stunned & scared & fully pissed off then they aren’t paying attention.
This is a stand up and fucking fight moment.
i actually think it's the opposite. even if we pull this one out, we're going to have to figure out how to deradicalize a huge portion of our populace. this will involve patience and compassion for absolute assholes. i definitely do not have it in me.
Biden is the second Dem president in a row to take office with a clear mandate to destroy the Republican party for it's very obvious crimes and abuses, only to insist that a Return To Normalcy was far more important than justice, democracy, or the will of the people. All they care about is brunch.
The Iraq War should have been the end of the Republican Party. The financial crisis should have been the end. Neil Gorsuch should have been the end. Trump should have been the end. Covid should have been the end. Somehow the second chance well is bottomless.
Trump and his insurrection crew should have been arrested on Biden's first day in office
But look at the mess we have now
Garland and Wray aren't worth it F
Oh I agree with that completely. I'm just not seeing a mandate to destroy an entire political party, and particularly a way that doesn't start a civil war.
I think it's probably inevitable at this point, but I'm not interested in going full Stalinist and starting it like that.
Jesus, I meant electorally, and I feel like it's wild to read it otherwise. They should have been made politically untouchable, instead of letting Bush become a loveable grandpa figure while every media org slowly morphs into Fox News.
Look man, I have no idea what you want here. I'm a human being, I can't game out thirty years of what-ifs. But I lived through Bush, I lived through Trump, I saw them get free passes for historic shit--Iraq, covid--that should have kneecapped Republicans for decades, b/c leadership wanted to move on
I honestly forget who said it but someone once referred to LBJ stepping down as being probably the right move but also the Democrats losing their best sonofabitch when they were already short of them
