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EnergizedLib

(3,118 posts)
Tue May 5, 2026, 11:44 PM 17 hrs ago

I fear we're in for a rude awakening [View all]

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.

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