I feel like this was a big part of the 'Never Trump' groups back in the day, when there was actually some palpable resistance to the notion of him getting a second term amongst establishment Republicans: not that he was in any way in opposition to their actual leanings, but that in his unmitigated cruelty and his intellectually-void rapacity, he would give the game away.
The game has now been given, wholesale as it were, and there is no longer much desire for masks. Some are attempting to keep a guiding hand on their present actions, knowing that a reckoning may well be on the horizon, but many or even most have taken it upon themselves to be free and open with their hatreds and bigotries, with their institutional harms and personal assaults. And so many who had in the past been careful about their support of Trump, or felt a need to deny him in pursuit of their continued careers, livelihoods, and possibly lives, are no longer feeling that particular need.
I do find it difficult to believe that Trump could cause even more harm to the institutions than he, and they, have already done in the short year-and-a-quarter since his second term began. They have unbarred the gates and set the ships to sail into the waters of Charybdis; precarious trust built over decades has already been frittered away, and what comes tomorrow will have to be a slow, patient rebuild, if that is even possible.
Qasim is at times, tedious, like many progressives that don't get there is no "reforming" any of this because the system is functioning as designed and "democracy" was always a lie under capitalism.
But this analysis is 100% correct.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/mallory-mcmorrows-racist-attack-on
I mean brey, I know people inside this party, I know strategists inside this party. They are literally telling their candidates don't bring up mass deportations and migrants, don't bring up Jan 6th, don't bring up the anti-trans pogrom, don't bring up even the nazis rigging elections against our own African American base - this election is about the price of eggs.
That's real.
These people are going to lead you to ruin. They already have, it's the same ppl from 2024.
People on the left keep telling me "none of Trumps goons will ever see that money" like that's relevant in the slightest. As if, somehow, on ONLY THIS ISSUE, Trump voters are going to become "show me" skeptics who aren't just going to assume the President will pay them for doing violence on his behalf. Suddenly, these nazis are rational consumers in the political marketplace weighing the pros and cons of policy.
You're all idiots. Honestly. All of you. It's a cult guys. It's a death cult.
Also, what he thinks publication credit is for.
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