Who's innocent in this scenario? This is what the people voted for. Elections have consequences, and people out here acting like it's another episode of WWE.
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Yes there was. He is exactly following what Project 2025 started. This is following tech hard right playbook to a T. They've been pushing this since 2012.
Trump has a multidecade track record of lying and fraud that well predates his stint in politics. We're still waiting on his healthcare plan from the first Trump admin.... What he says doesn't matter.
People voted for Trump over things like immigration and inflation. Allowing a private individual to lawlessly directly control executive branch agencies is materially different than anything Trump ran on, and likely would have changed a substantial number of votes.
Whether Trump or Musk has that control is pretty irrelevant. Project 2025 envisioned a singular individual lawlessly running rampant over the federal government. We didn't elect a king either way.
No, this is not irrelevant. Neither Trump voters, or Harris voters, or anyone else expected or wanted Elmo to be the head of govt. If this was known ahead of time, it probably would have changed the election. This is materially different from electing a bad president (like Trump).
I disagree that there is clear evidence that Trump voters didn't expect or want Musk to burn the government down. What they are doing is not constitutional; Congress needs to form a new department in government, and Musk needs to be vetted by the Senate. But you can't say it's unexpected.
That's not how democracy works, unfortunately. I'm usually tagged as a defeatist or something, but I am genuinely having trouble reconciling what happens when a democracy turns mean and crappy. All the warnings from the past about how it will turn into mob rule seem to have come true.
A democracy cannot be expected to work well if there are huge biases in the way:
- people get "upgraded" from "inhabitant" to "citizen entitled to vote" to "actual voter"
- those that end up voting are informed
- the votes are taken into account
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There WERE plenty of known reasons not to vote for Trump, but the prospect of a private citizen taking control of govt wasn't aired.
- people get "upgraded" from "inhabitant" to "citizen entitled to vote" to "actual voter"
- those that end up voting are informed
- the votes are taken into account