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For context, the author is one of the more influential members of the Federalist Society, the right-wing judicial takeover group. If you’ve lost him, you’ve lost a huge chunk of people who have historically funded the Republican party patronage machine.
Trump will fuck up the economy, and will probably encourage vigalante lynchings of anyone whose not nazi enough. they’ll start with the immigrants and when they run out of those go to LGBTQ+, or women or whoever.
The problem they won’t have an answer to, and the reason fascism eventually always fails, is that eventually, you run out of people to hate. there is no one ideologically pure enough; no matter what standard the zealots take.