I have to admit, attempting to build a populist illiberal autocracy around the least popular president in modern polling seems like pretty bad strategy.
But then I guess if you've already crossed the Rubicon in a clown car, what else is there to do but keep driving even as the body panels fall off.
But then I guess if you've already crossed the Rubicon in a clown car, what else is there to do but keep driving even as the body panels fall off.
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He is their Messiah
The crowds in the streets will not be friendly.
Also, we've tested "how many people can Trump get to a riot" already. 50k - not enough.
https://bsky.app/profile/bretdevereaux.bsky.social/post/3lnyg5dppi22y
That's losing.
Quis coup-stodiet ipsos coup-stodes?
At this point, I legit don’t care what happens to Trump. He doesn’t have many years left, and most of those will be in a diaper.
What I really want for Christmas is Stephen Miller crying in a sentencing hearing.
So is it a Clown Car or a Clown Cybertruck?🤣
Spains Fransisco Franco was fascist and he won and kept his reign until his death.
Also Russia and Putin can be seen as fascists and while they are not winning, they are not losing either.
That the only two outcomes are:
1) Fascism
2) Republicans go the way of the Whigs.
They even designed their own car!
because it is not a democracy.
Like, Fidesz had a really high base of polling support (which has started to decline) early on (https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/hungary/)
He was far from popular up until the point of no return.
The idea of autocracy was popular because it was associated with permanency, stability, and simplicity of "everybody knows his place".
Tatyana was right. You don't need "popular". You instal the unpopular heir of an unpopular president in the place that was traditionally associated with reliable predictable autocracy, and bydlo will follow.
https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2019/08/13/808697-vzglyad-snizu
*hand to earpiece* Hold on, I'm receiving an update...
In 20th-21st C, structures aren't there
And so far, they can get away with a fucking lot!
The bad news is that the opposition is extraordinarily weak. American institutions, leaders and citizens are conditioned to be passive and risk averse.
The Democratic party will go where the people are, they always have.
I suspect it might be a very warm summer. Hot. Sweltering.
Back in the day, people called that “escalation of commitment”.
Which to me means, we’re sticking to our guns because we can’t admit we were wrong and we won’t course-correct because we don’t want to be ridiculed.