The right intends to force every American to live their definition of a good life through government edict
And it won’t stop with Trump, he is their tool and they will keep hammering their nail with other tools.
This is the bit that infuriates me when talking with folks who aren’t as engaged politically, Trump is a symptom, he’s a vessel for all the hatred and vitriol. When he is gone the ideology will persist within the GOP and conservative thought for decades
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I think it is even worse than that. He isn’t simply a puppet, he is an ideologue that perfectly embodies the repressed rage of a class of people who believe that life is a zero sum game. What we are dealing with is a death cult. They legitimately believe they are chosen by god to dominate the earth, and every single time they have gained power they have commit or attempted to commit genocide in the name of purifying society and bending it to their will. This is the ultimate existential threat as far as I am concerned, and why I am a staunch anti-theist. No Christian can ever be truly trusted because if and when they take power they will all fall in line because the alternative is sacrificing themselves for a cause they do not believe in.
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I prefer to think of him as a tumor: the tumor wouldn’t exist without the underlying cancer (and removing it while leaving the cancer otherwise untreated doesn’t save you) but it’ll still kill you.
I’m not a doctor so I’m not sure whether the parenthesis is true of literal cancer, but it definitely is in the case of political and cultural cancer like this.
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My main hope is that the inevitable power vacuum and power struggle fractures the GOP, if not beyond repair, long enough for it to seriously hurt any sort of party cohesion in the medium-term.
It’s planned insurrection. In the open. I don’t understand how the owners add contributors aren’t charged under at least rico at this point.
His name is Merrick Garland.
We might be able to avoid Trump but there will be more to follow that will try to follow this plan. To be clear, they are trying to take away your freedom.
Like Iran, just with a cross, and mad preachers instead of Mullahs.
Yep, a group wants things to go back to old ways uses religion to replace education while driving around in trucks thinking about guns and how to take away women’s rights.
