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(42,910 posts)Yes, the white supremacists are running things, right alongside white-Jesus christian nationalists like the Russ Vought choir, while their WH front man pitches to non-white voters along the lines of ....the liberal left has never really had your back, so what have you got to lose now by hanging with those who really know how to use power....
that kind of carrot & stick
If news of the heritage oligarch network's christian nationalist henchmen, and their mass deportation criminality, has not awakened non-white voters to their eventual targeting, I don't know what will..these days I'm at a point of thinking out loud ...
Because it looks so far as if most of those who voted for the felon are, for starters, good with taking down one bad guy to "save" a country from corrupt systems that remain there. And the rest don't see this country as having corrupt parallels to Venezuela's. The attack on VZ are meant to keep maga base happy about their guy so they'll see their troubles as a necessary patriotic sacrifice that will bear fruit as christian power later.
What keeps me up at night (lame, I know, but it's all I've got right now, being all out of outrage) is that by November, too many young people will have been inured to this violent drama as normal, and will have forgotten what democracy is, and not experienced it enough to care if it continues, and more nationwide protests by millions might not bestir them about why we GOTV.