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It goes to show how republicans are cowards. They don't want the wrath of MAGAs so they nominate him hoping he'd just lose and go away.
They also know that with no Trump, they lose all the crazies, and the crazies are the only thing even keeping them in the game right now. So they pandered to them, and drove away all the vaguely normal Ron Swanson types who might have voted for them in the dim and distant past.
They need to go away, and regroup, and come back with something that isn't... this.
Everyone knows this, but most Republicans are still going to hold their noses and vote for the guy. It's unreal.
Its still a tight race in the swing states. Crazy to think anyone supports this guy. He has no respect for the country, or anyone in it. There's so many people blindly voting against their own interests. I just don't get it.
25 years of organized propaganda (fox news, talk radio, etc.). I live amongst Trump supporters, they truly believe prices will come down and they will make more money.
my mom believes that we're being "invaded" by illegals. i said, "stop using that term. it's offensive and racist."
"that's what they are. they broke the law," she shot back.
"and you're offensive and racist. and i suppose that means you're an illegal, too, since you jaywalked earlier?" I replied.
"illegal immigrants are felons!" she shouted at me.
"like Trump? so, he's a 34-times illegal, then? and you're voting for him?"
"that's different!" she screamed
there's no reasoning with these people
You can't reason people out of a position they didn't reason themselves into
Conservatives live on symbols. The Bible, the Constitution, the flag. They don’t even understand them and don’t need to because it’s really all about their emotions. They are in it to win and to feel confident, not to rule.
Team sports.
"My team win, your team lose."
The extent of their thought process.
this is why high school pep rallies were invented-- it takes a special kind of stupid to bleat about "individual liberty" while pledging your soul to a party of collectivist ultranationalism which "others" everyone who doesn't toe the line
you are free to do as we say, or else
They know how to vote.
The fascists can always wait, they only have to win once.
The Reaganites are eager to get back to the business of cutting corporate taxes and welfare and the highly profitable war on peace. They don't wanna deal with Chumps drama anymore.
I think the World in general would be better off if Trump loses.
I'm subjected to a few hours of Fox News/right-wing YouTube a week, and it's certainly felt like the vibe has shifted. Reading between the lines with some of the talking heads, it sounds like they'd rather Trump lost and the GOP made gains in both the House and the Senate.
They can still run the party status quo ante that way for at least a little while. If Democrats get through voting rights legislation, the GOP will be forced to come up with an actual party platform beyond "loot the treasury."
It's also what the dems are playing into by chasing the center and the voters who are on the fence to swing the top of the ticket, but don't support downticket candidates. If the dems want anything more than the white house, they need to excite their base. Trump is trying to scare her away from being a progressive by calling her "Comrade Kamala".
Everyone will be better off if Trump loses. Billionaires, Republicans, progressives, climate activists, Wall Street bankers, and congresspeople of every party.
Trump’s second term will be a Project 2025-enabled attempt to simply destroy the United States government and inflame a civil war in order to keep MAGA in power forever. I guess under the assumption that it’ll work smoothly and everything will continue as normal after, just with MAGA people in charge of the magically-still-working-smoothly machinery of the country?
It’s like those people who bought plane tickets to January 6th, thinking they would go there and violently overthrow the transfer of power and kill any congresspeople that stood in the way of it, and then they could go home and show up to work with Trump now in power and everything would go back to normal.
It’s naive to the point of absurd self delusion. And roughly 95% of our media and government is going along with the delusion. Anything reporting on “Trump is ahead in polls in Wisconsin” instead of “Trump wants to kill anyone who opposes him and destroy the Department of Education and deploy the military against any domestic opposition” is feeding into the comforting cognitive dissonance that things will be within the normal parameters if Trump wins and abortion or “the economy” will be on the table as issues, and not “what can we do to get water and charge my phone today” and “which side’s forces is my governor on the side of”.
I’ve been saying since the primaries that the best plausible scenario was for Trump to get the nomination, then botch the election and drag the weirdos and loyalists in his party down with him.
Trump has spent years purging anyone that was moderate, even slightly principled, or just willing to put the good of the country ahead of his gigantic ego. Not to mention the way they treat the party’s warchest as their personal piggy bank, and it’s rank and file staff and volunteers as disposable. He’s made a party that’s blindly loyal to him, and which is a huge threat to the country, but which is ultimately far less effective as a party.
A more normal candidate would likely be dominating the race given public opinion on the current administration and the economy, to say nothing of the obscene amount of money being thrown around. But instead, Trump looks like he will cause the Republicans to underperform for the fourth time in a row.
If Trump loses dramatically enough and drags his people down with him, the party will likely collapse in on itself as opposing factions get locked in a power struggle. Plenty of big donors just want lower taxes and to not have to deal with regulations, and they will probably want to shift the party away from the MAGA weirdness and back towards something normal that isn’t going to alienate voters on all sides of the aisle. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of the more prominent anti-trump Republicans suddenly got a big boost in support, and a lot of Trump’s parasites suddenly find themselves getting driven out.
Best scenario for who?
I think the best scenario for everyone is that Trump loses, Dems win Congress control back, and Harris absolutely fucking nails this job and gets another term.
The best scenario is that the Republicans get destroyed so hard they stop being a party, and leftists take over, thus making democrats the right wing of mainstream politics while remaining approximately where they are on policy.
So they created a monster and the monster is now out of control. What a surprise, huh?
Well, I've got something to tell you: fuck you and all your shitty GOP. If you didn't see this coming, you only deserve an absolute defeat and disappearing into oblivion.
But what's actually happening here is not that. No, what's happening here is that your fucking party got so unhinged (by your own hands) that only the most deranged people are willing to vote for you, and that's scary, right? That's scary because there are not enough wackos to make you win an election, and now you're really fearing the fact that you might be losing elections for generations thanks to all the damage your monster did to yourselves.
Well, you know what? I'm glad. I'm happy you're so fucked right now that you prefer losing an election over winning it because of how much damage the win can do to yourselves.
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I mean, Kamala is gonna put them in her cabinet and enact their policies anyway.
Nope. You must not have been following what's going on. Did you think this was ml?
Didn't you see where she said she values republican opinions and would consider having them in her cabinet? Or where she'll maintain material and political support for Israel's ongoing genocide? Or where she wants to continue "strengthening" the southern border?
The choice illusion at this point it's a fucking classic.
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