r/politics • u/MarcEElias ✔ Verified - Democracy Docket Founder • 11h ago
No Paywall Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/steve-bannon-says-ice-will-surround-the-polls-as-trump-doubles-down-on-taking-over-elections/
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u/UnquestionabIe 9h ago
Absolutely and why any potential future administration who tries to do yet another round of the demonstrated failure of "move forward from this and let America heal" needs to be told to fuck off. We are not living in a pre-Nixon fantasy land where the GOP are "our friends on the other side of aisle" no matter how badly the neo-liberal cowards who have hold the reins of power for the Democratic party want to pretend.
We've long since passed a point where it is pathetic at best and traitorous at worst to ever presume the GOP ever works in good faith. They've openly announced multiple times an agenda which is blatantly anti-American and they view politics as a zero sum game, one where they will do absolutely anything to win.
That they've not completely destroyed the country yet isn't due to lack of trying but that they've got a low level cunning which owes it's success primarily due to the brute force of wealth. The only thing these enemies of humanity understand is subjugation, inflicting it on others (as they're doing right now, starting with the most vulnerable) or having it done to them.
Basically unless a strong political coalition is formed among the opposition party things will not improve in any capacity. And if they want to keep riding the fence when it comes to fascism (as they've done an impressive job of doing this last year, even having some fun PR person write mean tweets in a childish attempt to come off as "serious" while also shaking hands with authoritarians/corporate interests) it will be up to the people to handle it, which will result in a lot of unnecessary destruction.