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I've been hoping for a MAGoo/GOP war since 2015.
otoh, if DOGE really manages to mess up Social Security payments, there's no way the GOP can recover.
Republicans straight up nuked the economy in 2008 and they were back in the Congressional Majority two years later. Same thing happened in 2020.
Gerrymandering makes many of these maps mathematically unwinnable for Democrats
Big difference between ruining the Wall Street types and taking money out of someone's pocket.
Social Security has never missed any payments in 80 years. It's the difference between milk going up a dollar and you not getting your paycheck.
Im not so sure it'd be that easy. The conservative media cesspool is closed loop. They will lie and blame the Dems for not making it break proof or some other BS and the sheep will eat it up.
We will need Dems to go onto the shows and blast the message day and night that it's broken bc GOP allowed I lt it be broken by an illegal imagrant.
Our hope now is in the leopards
I wouldn't go that far. The maga Republicans are obviously so easily manipulated without a shred of critical thought left that they will do whatever their overlords want of them.
If they're willing to brazenly attack Social Security, maybe they don't care about elections anymore.
That's the issue. If they really start screwing with SS payments, it means that they are confident that they have control of future elections. Then the only question will be if they do it softly, and rig the elections and claim they are 100% fair and square (which the Dems will support, like 2020), or if they decide to go full on Nazi, and cancel elections altogether, then enthusiastically and ruthlessly murder anyone who dares to question it.
Looking at the players, like Pukin, Skum, Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller, Steve "Unwiped Asshole" Bannon, et al, my bet is that they'll go for the full on Nazi dictatorship. They aren't building a 30K capacity concentration camp in Guantanamo for giggles.
I get what you’re saying, but I am also extremely aware of how fucking stupid the American electorate is, up to and including having all government support taken away and responding with “thank you sir, may I have another”. American conservatives are deeply stupid.
Didn't forget the Democrats strong suit is striking out at tee ball. It should be easy to capitalize on this, but I just know they'll totally fuck it up.
And on purpose. They aren’t a leftist party.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Also, I’m totally stealing “striking out at tee ball” lmao
Snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory is the Democratic brand. See 2000, 2004, 2016, 2020.
People used to say Reagan and his courting of the 'moral majority' were going to fracture the party and cause it to destroy itself with the embrace of a massively divisive religious rhetoric. It's wishful thinking at best.
I want this to be true, but it just isn't. A third of the country will follow along with whatever mental gymnastics are required to blame democrats. Another third are just not paying enough attention and vote on pure vibes, if at all. If dems try to run an unlikable, centrist candidate with a mixed at best record it will end up a toss up. And the electorate at large will forget everything that is happening now within eight years.