I fear we're in for a rude awakening

[EnergizedLib]

Indiana has had no fewer than five state senators backed by the felon knock off anti-gerrymandering incumbents - while one of them leads a MAGAt challenger by a mere three votes with 99% in.

Higher gas, higher prices, an unpopular war, higher debt, job losses? All is good within the cult, and what I fear now is Georgia and South Carolina will look at Indiana and have second thoughts (maybe not Georgia as much since Kemp stood up to the felon over 2020 and still won in 2022), or Thune will nuke the filibuster and pass the voter suppression act.

They'll look at Indiana and feel emboldened and enabled to do the bidding of the felon to gerrymander everywhere, which of course, we must fight back with everything we can do, but the problem, and I've been saying this multiple times recently, is we win battles, they win wars. And the battles become more and more uphill.

Even if we win in 2026, I can't hold my breath for 2028, no matter how stinking unpopular the felon is. Will they run him again in 2028? Will the enablers in robes allow it to happen?

Nothing truly surprises me anymore.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Thune isn't going to nuke the filibuster

Take a breath- It’s Indiana.

Let’s see how things turn out in November.

One thing you don’t have to worry about- Trump will not appear on any state’s ballot in 2028.

2 does not equal 3, no matter how you slice and dice the constitution.

In addition, There are dozens of Republican presidential wannabes who won’t stand for it- they are biding their time, kissing his ass hoping for an endorsement (most of them anyway),

We are not doomed.

[EnergizedLib]

2. How broken is the electorate, though?

I have some, but not a whole lot of confidence for November.

If these nominated judges are dodging the 22nd Amendment question….

Okay, maybe these Republican 2028 hopefuls are just hoping for an endorsement, but is that not an indictment of the electorate that this is whom they need to kiss up to to have a shot?

[misanthrope]

3. Agreed. There's still six months worth of Trump mistakes left

The way his policies are going right now, he is slitting his own throat.