Sam LitzingerThe only solution I see to Trump and Trumpism is to crush the Republican party this November. Banish it to the political wilderness for the next 40 years. Repudiate its horror. Shame and shun its members.
Gene Cowan 🏳️🌈@samlitzinger And prosecute a large number of them.
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Lee EyresBut you won't. And if you did then something worse would replace it, like we've sort of dumped the Conservative party (the party of Thatcher, Major, Cameron, Churchill etc.) but in its place we've got Reform which now head the polls despite having policies that mirror MAGA and actually probably being a worse bet than the conservatives.
And I note that MTG was replaced by a pro-Trump republican (albeit with a reduced margin) in Georgia, so there’s still plenty of Americans who will vote for continuation of this madness.
FallsMom 🌻For better or worse, I'm thinking of the treatment of collaborators in France after WWII.
PG1958WILLNOTCOMPLY 🇺🇸🇷🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@samlitzinger I'm in for that...
Space Hobo@samlitzinger It has to be more complete than that. We need to educate the public to spot right-wing and anti-intellectual projects from the jump. We need to root out the people who sound like they're environmental leftists until you actually ask them what worries them and they babble about the PoPuLaTiOn BoMb and reveal that they think of "nature" as a holiday destination they drive to.
We need an entire nation of people who can hear every last dogwhistle, and won't stand for it.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyI grew up in a small conservative Texas town in the 80s. There was no such thing as liberal media or differing viewpoints. Racism and bigotry was just in the air.
But I knew, in my soul, what was right and wrong. These people didn’t become homophobes or racists because of Rush Limbaugh, they listed to him because they were racists and homophobes.
I am truly starting to believe that like a third of humanity is just, for lack of a better term, stupid and evil.
Alessandro Corazza 🇨🇦The part that really worries me is the ~38% of Americans who still support Trump. They won't simply disappear after the midterms, nor change their minds if nothing has changed them yet.
David J. Atkinson@alessandro @samlitzinger Divert their attention (that won’t be hard) so they get on a path that can’t cause much harm. Something to do with hunting, or fast food, or small business.,
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Trumpism has no intention of losing the midterms. A military coup might have a chance.
Trumpism has no intention of losing the midterms. A military coup might have a chance.
Demian@samlitzinger you so badly need that 40 of non voters to show up. But you also need new parties. So it seems that it's a catch 22 situation.