Milestones Toward an Authoritarian Government

A better outcome to save America wsould be to have tRump’s stooge candidates primaried.

While there has been a shift in general political attitudes since the last election, I don’t know that the shift has occurred deep enough into the red- or red-leaning portion of the population for primarying Dear Leader’s loyalists to be an effective strategy.

I’m actually more concerned about what happens on the blue side. Will some viable blue candidates be challenged by and possibly lose primaries to candidates who are far enough left to discourage purple voters who might otherwise be inclined to vote blue?

(My blue congressman, who hasn’t had an effective challenger in primaries or the general election since he was elected too-many years ago, looks to be in a four-way primary race. If this weren’t a deep blue district / if the Connecticut GOP weren’t incompetent…)

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I guess there are not many people alive today who remember McCarthyism and the harm it produced.

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Right wing talk pundits like Ann Coulter have been working on rehabilitating McCarthyism for at least a decade.

“We found the hack for McCarthyism to succeed: All we have to do is when they ask, 'Until this moment, MAGA, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Let us not assassinate the character of half the nation further, MAGA. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?” We reply, ‘No, we don’t.’"

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Did ABC muzzle them?

Highly likely

I hope you are correct. Only time will tell.

good morning america covered it and stephanopolis called it something like “the latest and most blatant attempt at from the trump administration.” but they did not discuss discuss. will see if george survives the night

Currently at a science conference in Europe. Was having dinner with some colleagues, one of whom is associated with the org’s science journal. He was having a meeting with some of the journal editors at the conference and had made some “make peer review great again hats” (not red). The American members of the group were upset/afraid about the hats and refused to wear them. They were scared they might lose their jobs if the wrong people saw a picture of them wearing their hats.

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Hard to imagine what the retelling of Harper’s Ferry will be if mentioning slavery is prohibited.
https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/certain-exhibits-being-removed-from-harpers-ferry-under-trump-administration-order/

He was careful to say you aren’t allowed to criticize the president. You aren’t allowed to criticize Trump.

They will still convince themselves that voting for a dem is worse, regardless of whether the Dems do anything to eff it up

Violent looters try to steal property.

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We have already seen that repeating verbatim someone’s words is not allowed.

Stupid US Attorney, thinking that evidence matters.

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Maybe. Either way I’m more concerned about the aftermath of the vote than the vote itself.

This could go in so many threads…

This is so stupid.

Trans Sympathizers are the REAL nihilistic violent extremists.
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