• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They’re acting like trapped animals

    GOP has the majority of governors, state legislatures, and federal judges. Even if they get washed like in 2008 (and there’s no reason to predict that kind of Dem landslide without a charismatic figure like Obama on the ballot) they aren’t going anywhere.

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      10 months ago

      I didn’t say they were a trapped animal. I said they’re acting like one. You want some nightmare fuel? Trump loses, horribly, and tanks the down ballot races because he sucked up all the campaign money for his legal bills.

      Instead of accepting the Democratic trifecta, Republican Governors, legislatures, and Judges just decide Trump and all the other Republicans won and send his electors to D.C. Understandably, the deep blue cities in the Mid West and South East riot. This is used as a pretext for the Governors to suspend civil rights in those states and we’re now in a stand off between Biden and the red states.

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        Instead of accepting the Democratic trifecta, Republican Governors, legislatures, and Judges just decide Trump and all the other Republicans won and send his electors to D.C.

        That’s a thing they get to do because they control all of these offices.

        It isn’t even as though guys like DeSantis and Abbott and Parson and Huckabee-Sanders aren’t wallowing in their own criminal cesspool either.

        But Dems are so fixated on Trump as a unique villain that they’ve let this clown car of fascism do donuts across the southwest unimpeded.

        Trump could drop dead tomorrow, get replaced by Vivek Ramaswamy, and they could still do this.

        Thanks to a new wave of gerrymandering, vote caging, and legislative strong arming, they effectively already are hijacking state and municipal government offices from elected Democrats.

        Just look at Abbot’s takeover of the Houston Independent School District. Or Mississippi State legislatures seizing Jackson’s elected judiciary with House Bill 1020. Or the Pennsylvania House impeachment of Philly DA Larry Krassner.

        Understandably, the deep blue cities in the Mid West and South East riot. This is used as a pretext for the Governors to suspend civil rights in those states and we’re now in a stand off between Biden and the red states.

        I’m old enough to remember blue cities erupting into riot over police treatment of black residents in 2014. Do you remember what Obama did next? Do you remember what Democrats campaigned on in 2016 and then again and again in subsequent election years?