I feel like we already lost. Even if Biden wins in 2024, which looks harder to do every day, does it matter? When this much of the population wants fascism, and this many will threaten whoever he wants threatened, how do we work as a county?
I was about to ask...
Okay, to your opening post, I don't think Trumpism dies with Trump (who does not look well so I'm guessing not many more years). I do think it weakens and begins to fragment without him. Big difference to its power.
We'll see how it goes from there. I'm cautiously optimistic.
I think you're right about that, but the biggest strand will be a less buffoonish fascism. But that aside, that's not quite what I'm worried about. I'm worried about what lies beneath the power. If we control everything, but 35% want us dead and are violent about it, how does it work?
Oh, it's nowhere near 35%. That's only eligible voters. Total population, it's more like 18, 19%.
That isn't new. Those have been around since the birth of the nation as we know it.
They've just been emboldened recently. If that changes, a lot else changes with it, just as it has historically.
I’m writing about the current “let’s get rid of the 22nd amendment” trial balloon being floated by the right and it’s real hard not to feel doomer about it all.
Yea, I agree. They're so post-truth that it doesn't matter that such a push entirely invalidates their primary anti-Biden argument. And their power is no longer tied to electoral outcomes. And they just threaten judges who won't go along anyway. I don't know what success looks like anymore.
