dacomeup
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Feel like you’re skimming my post or something. In the grand scheme of things, Trump is a useful idiot. However, he’s laid the groundwork for a much smarter person with a better understanding to come along and actually enact much more damage on this Democracy. Republicans weren’t willing to remove him when he was bribing foreign powers to investigate political opponents. He tested the limits of our checks and balances, and even in some instances, the court didn’t reject his authoritarian actions, they simply sent him back to find a better justification. More importantly, they’ve poisoned the root of the tree, with almost a quarter of Americans falsely believing that an election was stolen. The ramifications of that have the potential to be huge.This has happened in the past already until the civil rights movement took place. Politics are predictable. It’s all reactionary. Trump isn’t breaking new ground on any fronts. His openness to being an idiot is the only thing he’s got over anybody.
what the republicans are doing now is what they’ve been doing for generations.
The demographics of this country are shifting in ways that we’ve never seen before. I don’t think it’s as simple as “the republicans are doing what they’ve always done”. The senate is the least fair representative democratic body in Western civilization — and things are likely going to get worse. 30 million more people voted for Democrat Senators than Republicans and they’re still in the majority. Democrats lost state legislative bodies and didn’t even pick up Senate seats that we were expected to pick up. So the maps will be gerrymandered like hell and Republicans will pick up more seats over the next decade. So yea, this thing is a bit more dire than you portray it as. We are living under minority rule with things likely getting worse.