• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The fact that many Americans might prefer other candidates, much ballyhooed by such political sages as Karl Rove, will soon become irrelevant when millions of Republican voters turn out to choose the person whom no one allegedly wants.

    Until now, Republicans and conservatives have enjoyed relative freedom to express anti-Trump sentiments, to speak openly and positively about alternative candidates, to vent criticisms of Trump’s behavior past and present.

    Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, the Wilson administration shut down newspapers and magazines critical of the war; Franklin D. Roosevelt rounded up Japanese Americans and placed them in camps.

    There is every reason to believe that active-duty troops and reservists are likely to be disproportionately more sympathetic to a newly reelected President Trump than to the “Radical Left Thugs” supposedly causing mayhem in the streets of their towns and cities.

    The power shift at the federal level, and the tone of menace and revenge emanating from the White House, will likely embolden all kinds of counter-resistance even in deep-blue states, including violent protests.

    As Mitt Romney recounts in McKay Coppins’s recent biography, Republican members of Congress contemplating voting for Trump’s impeachment and conviction feared for their physical safety and that of their families.


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  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    This was fearmongering bullshit when this opinion was posted a couple months ago. It still is.

    No one that voted for Biden in 2020 is voting for Trump in 2024.

    Democrats are beating polls by 9+ points at the ballot boxes, nationwide & have been since Roe v. Wade was over turned.

    The GOP has lost 14 of their last 16 special elections.