So...Trump's still salty over losing the 2020 election, claimed that elections in 15 states are "corrupt", and that the federal government should step in to stop that. And EVERYONE disliked that, including the GOP. At least people still care SOMEWHAT about democracy and they aren't just calling to end elections.
Still, it's worth reporting on because, well, I've been warning you guys. Trump's (and Trumpism's) long term success relies on its ability to maintain and consolidate control over our institutions, and given the GOP stands a very good chance of losing the 2026 midterms and 2028 elections, well...it's possible that we will endure.
Still, it doesn't mean Trump ain't gonna try and this is basically him trying.
The ironic thing is, in theory, I'm not even opposed to more federal control in standardizing election procedures. I've been critical of our 50 states patchwork given the republicans have previously consolidated control in their states to make it harder for democrats to gain gains, while also rigging it against third parties via banning ranked choice voting. So my opposition was over the powers that be not allowing MORE democracy to thrive, since I would much rather us be a multi party democracy with 3+ viable parties. Still, 2 is a step up from 1, and Trump wants to make us a one party state.
But that's the difference. When i criticize our institutions it's because I wanna make democracy better where we have, say, 4 national parties, with the libertarians and greens becoming more mainstream. These guys wanna kill it and have only 1. 2 is better than 1, but not as good as 3, 4, 6, or whatever. So....I guess now I gotta play defensive and support this flawed patchwork in opposition to trump's efforts to just rig stuff as he pleases directly. I hate that we've gotten here, but we've gotten here. I guess that's checks and balances though. Right now the states are our primary line of defense against trumpism. Although with this even the president's own party, especially long standing members from pre 2016, are just like NO to this. Which is good, they should be. I dont see how any principled "constitutionalist" can support Trump. He doesn't support the constitution, either in letter or spirit. I might criticize the constitution, but at least I support the spirit of it. I just think we could do certain things better and that the actual implementation is a bit flawed and dated. These guys just hate the idea of democracy, or rule of law, or checks and balances.
And yet we're the ones accused of "hating America" (see the other day's rant) for lightly criticizing the constitution or our institutions the way we do. No, Donald Trump hates "America." And Donald Trump is a fascist, or at the very least fascist adjacent. We just want America to grow and be the best it can be. Huge difference. He wants to turn us into 1930s Germany. Complete with our own concentration camps. Yeah, he's doing that too.
*sigh*, i hate this administration. Not America as a concept or the constitution in general, but specifically the people who run it currently. We are in hell. It's like we all died in the mid 2010s somehow and it's been a fever dream ever since. Sometimes I wish we would just wake up back in 2017 with Bernie Sanders being sworn in as president.
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