Hey, maybe the "liberal media" might really give a good think about the "objective" reporting on the journalism side. Stop bothsidering a monster in the making like donnie when reporting. Stop acting like this is all normal or that donnie is just "being Trump".
Because you can be sure that journalists of all kinds will be some of the most at-risk under the con tyranny.
None of that is untrue but it doesn't account for GOP fuckery or voter apathy. Framing things in that way reminds me of all the "yeah right, HRC is gonna lose to Trump lol" comments we heard in 2016.
Yeah, but unlike those hopeful 2016 voters, we actually have extant, pattern forming data related to why instead of just assuming that "no one with more than two brain cells to rub together would actually vote for Trump".
There is a reason the GOP isn't releasing any internal polling.
100% hard agree. The media has gotten into a cycle of 'here's the crazy thing Trump did/said today!!!!' Followed by 'Trump is taking us right into a dictatorship and there's nothing anyone can do, be afraid!!!'
Meanwhile all the actual electoral vote polling show Trump losing to Biden worse than he did last time. Just go vote, people, in every election, every time. I don't want people to be complacent but the numbers look terrible for Trump.
I don't know what's happening behind closed doors, but this is a great illustration of why Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly getting their news from sources other than Mainstream News. It's practically right wing billionaire ghost writing, at this point.
I'm worried. biden's blowing it. democrats don't seem to understand how to win elections and we need a backup plan in case "just vote for biden really hard and hope the fascist storm blows over" doesn't work.
This is the issue though. I never saw so many apathetic voters or "protest voters" ignorant of how the US election system functions until I came to the fediverse. The sheer lack of civic understanding here is terrifying.
I agree it's not inevitable; that part is wrong. I like the article nonetheless because of the sense of alarm it carries. A lot of the news about Trump doesn't have nearly enough of that.
I saw an article on the climate yesterday that had some scientist saying in passing "it's time to panic" (like not even the main thrust of the article, it was just his quick reflection on some aspect and then he moved on). I think that kind of sentiment isn't expressed anywhere near often enough for what the situation is in the world today.
Not that I disagree with anything you're saying, and I don't want to diminish the urgency, but it's like we've got a global case elevating of alarm fatigue. It's hard to find anything more or less panicking when the doomsday clock is permanently set to 11:59 p.m.
As a Canadian, the prospect of a Trump dictatorship certainly is chilling.
That's the whole point of this doomsaying. It's not being repeated just because some people believe it, though some doubtlessly do - it's being repeated because it's convenient propaganda for fascists.
So if he was a dictator in his first term, he opted to step down at its completion himself? Because in my understanding of dictatorships, it's the dictator who sets the term limits.
It's inevitable if we don't do our part and vote. We don't kowtow to Fascists so don't let them scare or demotivate you from doing your part and voting!
We voted the fascist President away once already, but we'll likely only get one more opportunity before he completes his attack on legitimate elections.
They're such a small part of Western politics, but such a disproportionately large part of Western online political discourse. I guess it's the only praxis they're capable of.
The fact that many Americans might prefer other candidates, much ballyhooed by such political sages as Karl Rove, will soon become irrelevant when millions of Republican voters turn out to choose the person whom no one allegedly wants.
Until now, Republicans and conservatives have enjoyed relative freedom to express anti-Trump sentiments, to speak openly and positively about alternative candidates, to vent criticisms of Trump’s behavior past and present.
Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, the Wilson administration shut down newspapers and magazines critical of the war; Franklin D. Roosevelt rounded up Japanese Americans and placed them in camps.
There is every reason to believe that active-duty troops and reservists are likely to be disproportionately more sympathetic to a newly reelected President Trump than to the “Radical Left Thugs” supposedly causing mayhem in the streets of their towns and cities.
The power shift at the federal level, and the tone of menace and revenge emanating from the White House, will likely embolden all kinds of counter-resistance even in deep-blue states, including violent protests.
As Mitt Romney recounts in McKay Coppins’s recent biography, Republican members of Congress contemplating voting for Trump’s impeachment and conviction feared for their physical safety and that of their families.
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