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[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

he’s broken his electoral coalition

He did that a while ago. None of that really matters though, because there’s now an iron grip on the judiciary and policing and probably on the military.

Unless they get another fair election, then it has licence, but things don’t look that good on that front.

pissed off so many of their own voters

They’re worried about physical backlash to that, not electoral. They’ll vote R anyway, but again, it’s going to be likely voting is pretty much redundant.

That would be where you’re wrong.

I hope you’re right and I’ll admit on the levels you’ve pointed out, the wheels are turning. Overall, it’s not making much difference though; the administration is still willingly carrying out its pogroms and disregarding the rule of law. So I don’t know if I’m wrong. We’ll see.

Respectfully, I think there’s too much good info…

Certainly there’s a bit, but there’s also a lot of hope based on a couple of good things occurring like there was before the election. Those of us who called they’d allow Trump to run, then elect Trump, the institutions would collapse where all pretty well ridiculed for calling it.

One way or another the next election won’t be fair, if it’s held at all, and the Democrats won’t win the midterms. I hope I’m wrong, I truly do. It doesn’t matter what the swing on these ones tell you, the one that matters won’t be fair.

I see the same here in a big way, but I hope you’re right. I think too much is pinned on hope. I don’t think you’ll vote your way out of this, I’m sorry. The sooner that shutdown is undertaken the better. Hopefully next time they learn that voting is the easy way to stop it.