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Yes, but it's also Trump and the GOP self-immolating. November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout.

I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy.



> November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout.

So you have faith in the average American voter? (Or at least a plurality of them?)


The polls are increasingly dire for the GOP. They're even losing the military vote.


I feel like I am not good at anticipating election results, but anyway, the people arguing that the midterms will be a referendum on the economy make sense to me.

Expensive gas and groceries are pretty unpopular. I guess some chunk of people will find a way to wholly blame Biden or whatever.


> I guess some chunk of people will find a way to wholly blame Biden or whatever.

Markwayne Mullin, DHS Secretary, just yesterday:

“You have a Biden administration that is failing the American people because they are allowing millions of people to come into this country illegally.”

20 months in to a 48 month term and they're still blaming the last guy, and phrasing it as if the last guy is still actively doing things other than having cancer.

The whole admin is a bunch of clowns. And unfortunately they benefit from a right wing media machine that reinforces the nonsense, and a general media environment that is more than willing to sanewash and downplay.


I hope you're right, but forgive me if I don't party yet. I thought the same thing two years ago.


> Yes, but it's also Trump and the GOP self-immolating. November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout.

> I expect the next administration will push through some laws limiting this sort of idiocy.

The problem is that the bar is now so low that basically anybody will win, by design.

They'll pass some surface level bullshit to treat symptoms, like how lakes can or cannot be renamed. But they'll fail to address any root, systemic issues that allowed this BS to unfold in the first place, paving the way for the other half of the Uniparty to resume power 4-8 years later.

Democracy is illusory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniparty


*American Democracy


Such laws would be useful everywhere. First rule: whatever you decide, it's effective after 6 months. Second rule: you can't change first or second rule.




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