• PentastarM@midwest.social
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    1 day ago

    I remember during trumps first term, that this was circulating around (on reddit at the time), that there is no way republicans make it out unscathed. Then covid hit, and the same discussions were happening, “so many more Republicans are dying than Democrats! There is no way another Republican will win!” And then last November happened. And not only did trump win a second time, but also the House and Senate fell under republican control.

    So while I like your optimism, and fully support it, you’ll have to cut everyone a little bit of slack. Seeing as how we’ve been promised the demise of the Republican party and platform for a long time now.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      I understand this and consider it realism, but now is fundentally different from then because Trump has broken the unspoken covenamt between the capitalist class and the political system. It used to be that contributing to the party’s success guaranteed some favors from the government, but now the favors are only going out to Trump’s sycophants and the benefits of sycophancy are much smaller than the losses due to the financial uncertainty of chaos.