• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      More rats sensing the ship is about to sink

      Nah. Loomer is a chronic attention seeker. She’s just saying anything that will get her name in the headlines one more time.

      In a few years time, depending on what happens in the next year, you might think that the entire MAGA movement was a hallucination

      They’ve straight up murdered people en mass. They’ve “doubled Gitmo” with their concentration camps in Honduras and El Salvador and God only knows where. That’s not something you can just undo or walk away from.

      If MAGA feels like a hallucination in another few years, it is only because of a massive cover-up by the Still Extremely Fascist media. It will be a prelude to another fascist surge and another wave of totalitarian violence.

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      We thought the same thing with Bush and the reublicans in his day, and then the Tea party happened. We thought it again with the Tea Party. Then Trump happened. I think the tiki torch guys from Charlottesville are more likely to take over the party than to slink back into the shadows.

      Republican politicians aren’t leading their base into the crazy, they are holding the crazy back from the rest of us.

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        Uhhh. No. They think the crazies are useful idiots so they platform them and use them to get more power. Then they only disavow if it becomes politically expedient to do so.

        So, not “holding back” so much as “actively garnering support for until it isn’t valuable to do so any more”

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        You think this is “holding back”? We have death camps in Florida. We have people, citizens even, getting deported to countries they aren’t citizens of, or have never lived in. Fuck, my guy, it sure could get worse, but they’re not holding back very much, are they.

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          Average maga voter wants to deport 15 to 30 million people. Yeah, there are nowhere near getting what they want.

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        4 months ago

        Thing is each time the sane ones jumped ship leaving room for crazier and crazier leadership. In the meantime the ones that left keep pulling the other side further right.