Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson unleashed a scathing attack Monday on Donald Trump, calling the former president a threat to American democracy itself, and making the case for forcible removal if Trump doesn’t willingly leave.In a fiery piece titled “Declaration of Independence From The Mad King,”…
What alarms me most is how none of the warnings are heeded or heard by lawmakers. Nobody can do anything about it.
Let’s say he doesn’t suspend elections in November. Let’s say we flip both the House and the Senate. Does anybody honestly believe they’ll enact restrictions, precautions, or any other measures to prevent something like this from happening again? Sure, there will be a couple of things passed… But nobody will go to jail, no enforcement will happen, nothing.
I suspect the population needs to see nothing happen if they vote in a blue wave, and I suspect it’s going to need to get worse… not that I don’t support voting, but right now there’s still too much faith that the system will correct itself. If you aren’t constantly consuming political news, you might think the lip service is actually doing something, and with the constant barrage of shit, people can honestly be forgiven too since extent for not knowing exactly how things are playing out with challenges and stuff.
It would be nice if it did correct course with voting, but I don’t think it will. At least not without a bigger shakeup (like actually progressives in place of dinos, flipping gerrymandered red districts, etc.) than 2026 midterms are likely to deliver…
Do you know why Republicans do exactly what the regime wants? It’s because Trump has a cult, that is exceedingly violent and unhinged. They threaten to murder their congresspeople, rape their wives, kill their children, burn their houses down. I’m not even kidding, look it up for yourself. Straight domestic terrorism stuff. Many Republicans are acting out of fear of their constituents, and it’s extremely effective. So…
What I’m hearing is that the politicians need to be made even more scared of the rest of us.
lol that’s one interpretation
The worst part is that they fucking knew this long before it was a problem you could actually point at.
They were warned, they just thought they wouldn’t be in front of the barrel and they thought they were sacrificing you and I instead of themselves, you, and I.
Fuck them, they deserve the fear.
Exactly both sides are equally complicit In this coup and need to be treated as such. They need to be walked to the trials all together
Trump is clearly fucking incapacitated. He needs to be removed under the 25th amendment. But what I see is either an utter lack of strategy, or a strategy of letting the republicans hang themselves (and all U.S. legitimacy along with it) in favor of letting things get to point where a midterm sweep seems likely. Ineptitude or callous political math. Feels like a greasy handshake from someone you know just spent all day alone.
Like they are actively and maliciously forfeiting their oath to protect the constitution and should be tried for treason