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Are you kidding? The Republicans are done and they know it. They hitched their future to Trump's wagon and it's rolling off the cliff as we speak. The rich repubs are pissed off that his trade war and mass economic uncertainty is hurting their profits, the poor ones who are actually conservative are pissed that he's trying to sell off America's national parks and giving the office of the presidency too much power, and his base is pissed off because he's "not hurting the right people". They can't pass any legislation that isn't a budget reconciliation procedural measure and even that is looking iffy because they can't reconcile what they want the bill to do with what it can do procedurally. They've got less than 18 months left and they can't do anything that will last before they lose their congressional majority forever.
i mean they're openly talking about deporting zohran mamdani just because he's a rising populist politician who is energising the left...
Exactly. They're so scared and weak, they're grasping at straws in hopes of avoiding their own replacement.
Lashing out at popular politicians is not the move of a confident authoritarian government, it's the last gasp of a dying one.
I remember during trumps first term, that this was circulating around (on reddit at the time), that there is no way republicans make it out unscathed. Then covid hit, and the same discussions were happening, "so many more Republicans are dying than Democrats! There is no way another Republican will win!" And then last November happened. And not only did trump win a second time, but also the House and Senate fell under republican control.
So while I like your optimism, and fully support it, you'll have to cut everyone a little bit of slack. Seeing as how we've been promised the demise of the Republican party and platform for a long time now.
I understand this and consider it realism, but now is fundentally different from then because Trump has broken the unspoken covenamt between the capitalist class and the political system. It used to be that contributing to the party's success guaranteed some favors from the government, but now the favors are only going out to Trump's sycophants and the benefits of sycophancy are much smaller than the losses due to the financial uncertainty of chaos.
Apart from ya know ... just manipulating the voting process and using the military to suppress any resistance.
They can't manipulate the voting process any more than they usually do and they couldn't even deploy the military to suppress existing resistance in L.A., they only inflamed it.