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The party is MAGA and that party is pro-dictatorship. The behavior of republicans decades ago is irrelevant, and it's obvious that MAGA has learned lessons from
by hamdingers 1y ago
The party is MAGA and that party is pro-dictatorship. The behavior of republicans decades ago is irrelevant, and it's obvious that MAGA has learned lessons from Tumps first term.
Perhaps it's you who haven't been paying attention? I find older people have a lot of unfounded faith in these failing institutions, but if you try to keep up you'll see this isn't the same America you grew up in.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoYes way back in 2016-2020 when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
- ryandrake 1y ago2016 might well have been 1916. The state of US politics is night and day different now.
- hamdingers 1y ago> it's obvious that MAGA has learned lessons from Tumps first term Read all the words in a comment before replying to it.
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- usefulcat 1y agoI get (and partly agree with) the point you’re trying to make, but do consider that the fact that Trump was ever elected at all, let alone twice, is really not helping your argument.
- jeltz 1y agoAnd 2021 was when the republicans decided to protect Trump after his half-assed failed coup attempt. He should have been locked up but the republicans decided to protect him.
- acdha 1y agoHow many Republicans were purged from party leadership after they didn’t vote to shelter Trump from the consequences of attempted election theft? His first term you had Romney, McCain, Cheney, etc. in Congress and a lot of people in his administration like John Kelly who had various lines they wouldn’t cross. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/trump-fascist-john-kelly https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/trump-fascist-john-k... Those people have all been purged. Any instinct you have for what Republicans will do which is older than 2021 is now actively misleading your judgement.
- gosub100 1y ago> The party is MAGA and that party is pro-dictatorship. remember the "sanctuary city" thing? That kind of blind obeisance to the tribe and defiance to the federal government smells awfully like what MAGA does today.But let me guess: it's okay when your tribe does it?
- bdangubic 1y agosanctuary cities are there partly due to government trying to be (just a little bit :) ) lawless… if ruling party was obeying the laws there wouldn’t be any need for “sanctuary cities” so pick another example your “tribe” in particular is *all about State rights” unless of course States do what the Tzar doesn’t like, right?!
- philipallstar 1y agoSanctuary cities are there to shelter people who enter the country illegally. That's not the government being lawless. They were not a reaction to recent ICE moves; you've no history, and have reversed cause and effect. In the 1980s they were a great moral move originally by the southwestern churches, they've just expanded into electorate jerrymandering and virtue signalling.
- jeltz 1y agoNonsense, how does sanctuary cities anything at all to du with gerrymandering?
- philipallstar 1y agoIf people can vote without proving citizenship, then you can just import illegal immigrants who will vote for you.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoThis is a boogeyman that needs to die. Conservative groups have been trying to find evidence of substantial illegal votes for decades and the only illegal votes are the false electors that Trump’s cronies used to try to steal an election in 2020.