• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    I’ve been having anxiety all month that there will be a sudden extreme event where Trump ends democracy for good. But it will probably be more gradual and less dramatic. I think I actually am kind of hoping for something sudden and dramatic to wake people up. What’s probably actually going to happen is worse: small, incremental steps to ending democracy. Either MAGA will win the midterms by quietly rigging them, or they’ll spend the next two months overturning the election results by claiming fruad

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      23 days ago

      plus maga doesn’t have to be driving it – it’s been driven to this point for roughly a half century before maga started to exist.