So, Trump's FBI raided Fulton County Georgia's election office. The reason for the raid seems to be largely related to the 2020 election and how he was salty that he lost, believing it's rigged. That is part of it, but I think Trump has much more nefarious concerns. Keep in mind what I said, this guy is gonna wanna rig and break the 2026 and 2028 elections. he stands to lose big in them, and wants to limit that. So he's gonna make up crap about voter fraud.
We know in minneapolis, he said he'd leave if he got the voter rolls there. Idk exactly what he wants done with voter rolls, but he might be wanting to collect them so he can start disenfranchising voters he doesn't like. And he seems to be targetting swing states. I know there's talk he's gonna come here to PA next, but it seems like Georgia is his next target, particularly atlanta.
But why is that such a big deal? Well, Atlanta might hold the key to democratic success in the coming decades. It's a city that's rapidly growing, has a large POC population, and is shifting more liberal very quickly. Even in 2024, when the rest of the country shifted right, Atlanta shifted left. The trends are happening so fast that if you look at those maps showing the arrows and what direction voters went in, atlanta was the most prominent blue arrow location in a sea of red.
And it's causing the state to rapidly shift left. In 2024, it actually ended up being less red than PA, and it's the only sun belt state that shifted that way. While other sunbelt states are rather cool on democrats, the atlanta metro seems to be turning georgia into the south's illinois, ya know, a state that would otherwise be deep red but there's this one huge city that makes it deep blue instead? Yeah.
And...if anything, that's why the GOP is so desperate. Keep in mind what I said, party realignments. During the obama years there was the idea that demographic shifts were happening that were gonna kill the reagan coalition for good. We already saw the GOP at the brink of electoral oblivion during the obama years, but then, the dems dropped the ball, allowing trump to win twice. Trump breathed new life into the map as his electoral strategy was able to flip states like iowa, ohio, and florida away from us, flipping them from swing states toward being hard right states, while also making pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan THE new bellwethers for the country.
But...here's the thing, these guys won't go quietly. The trends that started during the obama year are still happening, and they were at risk of losing parts of the south as well as the electoral map they were doing well with. Admittedly, democrats got too arrogant and cocky about it, trying to aggressively appeal to these states way before they were ripe for the picking, and in doing so, they F-ed up the map in a way that drove people back to conservatism.
Still, if we can make it through the trump years, one state where the GOP cant stem the bleeding is georgia. And 2024 proved it. It's just going too left too fast. They have been able to claw back support elsewhere, but they cant reliably win georgia any more, and they're functionally equivalent of a PA/MI/WI style state demographically.
If demographics are destiny, the key for republicans to control future elections is to control those demographics. Which is why they're focusing so much on deportations. The more brown people they can deport, the more republicans win. For them, they call it the great replacement theory, the idea that white people becoming a minority in america is bad and will end poorly for them. It won't end poorly for us, fyi. It'll just end poorly for republicans, whose current brand is tied to white christian evangelical types remaining the dominant demographic. So that's why the fascism, and that's why they're focusing on intimidating swing states to get voter rolls. They wanna purge the country of those who dont think like them to ensure another generation of rule under their ideas.
It's like watching a DBZ villain realize they lost and then try to nuke the whole planet (looking at you frieza, cell, etc.). That's what the GOP is doing, they're trying to nuke the country in order to preserve their brand of politics. And that's why the fascism, the attempted intimidation of protesters and lefties, the focus on deportations, collecting voter rolls., etc. It's all about preserving power for another generation in an election system that, if allowed to remain fair and free, would basically kill off their brand of politics, as it would become unpopular.
So...that's what Trump is doing. I felt a need to report on this so we can understand what's really going on here and what the end game is. It's about control. It's about shaping the demographics to favor permanent republican party rule. That's what they're planning and that's what their end game is.
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