Erick Erickson, a Georgia Republican insider, said bluntly on Friday that former President Donald Trump is in real trouble after his frantic efforts to make himself more palatable to voters who believe in reproductive rights and other key issues. Writing on X, Erickson claimed to have had "privat...
  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    3 months ago

    Best scenario probably results in the dissolution of the Republican party, and its key players in jail, dead, or otherwise removed from the political landscape.

    But the roots of the problems there- the xenophobia, the tribalism, the (deeply ironic considering some of their slogans) supremacy of feelings over facts - that stuff isn’t likely to go away. So even if the Republican party collapsed, there’s still plenty of people ready to believe outsiders are bad, climate change isn’t real, etc etc.

    I don’t really know how to fix that. Probably spend 100 years investing in education for all, removing lead and other toxins from the environment, and smashing apart anything that consolidates too much power (eg: Facebook, Sinclair media)

    • octopus_inkEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Probably spend 100 years investing in education for all, removing lead and other toxins from the environment, and smashing apart anything that consolidates too much power (eg: Facebook, Sinclair media)

      Well, neither party is going to do those things, so we’re pretty much fucked. (And that’s not a both sides argument, it’s just reality.)

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        2·
        3 months ago

        At least there’s been some anti trust movement lately! The Democratic party is much better about that than the Republican

        • octopus_inkEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          The Democratic party is much better about that than the Republican

          They are better in every way honestly, but increasingly I’m concluding still not good enough.