If I had to guess, I would say that won’t happen. I do think that any actual activist organization will be labeled as terrorists and banned and the leaders imprisoned, and that the Democrats will be so thoroughly disenfranchised through a series of various antidemocratic moves that they cannot win again, until some sort of activism comes sufficiently to the front to actively challenge the GOP in ways the current Democrats are simply unable to do. That may happen before the next election, as resistance mounts in the face of increasingly horrifying things Trump tries to do, or it may take 20 years or more of misery and oppression.
I’m not planning on not supporting the Democrats in the meantime, and I would love to be wrong. I’m just saying that I predict they will be fine slotted into their place as performative opposition, as the real repression takes hold. Of course, particular high-profile “bad” Democrats like Biden, Harris, AOC, and so on, will probably be charged with crimes. Whether they will be found guilty and go to prison isn’t clear to me, although having them in some extrajudicial limbo that involves being sent to Gitmo once it’s expanded or something is also a possibility.
I am 0% joking about any of this, if it is not clear.
If I had to guess, I would say that won’t happen. I do think that any actual activist organization will be labeled as terrorists and banned and the leaders imprisoned, and that the Democrats will be so thoroughly disenfranchised through a series of various antidemocratic moves that they cannot win again, until some sort of activism comes sufficiently to the front to actively challenge the GOP in ways the current Democrats are simply unable to do. That may happen before the next election, as resistance mounts in the face of increasingly horrifying things Trump tries to do, or it may take 20 years or more of misery and oppression.
I’m not planning on not supporting the Democrats in the meantime, and I would love to be wrong. I’m just saying that I predict they will be fine slotted into their place as performative opposition, as the real repression takes hold. Of course, particular high-profile “bad” Democrats like Biden, Harris, AOC, and so on, will probably be charged with crimes. Whether they will be found guilty and go to prison isn’t clear to me, although having them in some extrajudicial limbo that involves being sent to Gitmo once it’s expanded or something is also a possibility.
I am 0% joking about any of this, if it is not clear.