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"The craziness going on around us in the first two months of the second Trump administration makes a lot more sense if you remember that the goal of those currently in power was never simply to change the policies or the personnel of the U.S. government. Their goal is to dismantle the central pillars of the United States of America—government, law, business, education, culture, and so on—because they believe the very shape of those institutions serves what they call 'the Left.'”
"In place of those structures, today’s MAGA leaders intend to create their own new institutions, shaped by their own people, whose ideological purity trumps their abilities. As Vice President J.D. Vance explained in a 2021 interview, he and his ilk believe that American 'conservatives…have lost every major powerful institution in the country, except for maybe churches and religious institutions, which of course are weaker now than they’ve ever been. We’ve lost big business. We’ve lost finance. We’ve lost the culture. We’ve lost the academy. And if we’re going to actually really effect real change in the country, it will require us completely replacing the existing ruling class with another ruling class…. I don’t think there’s sort of a compromise that we’re going to come with the people who currently actually control the country. Unless we overthrow them in some way, we’re going to keep losing.' We really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power,” he said.
@mark. I think you nailed the biggest part of the craziness. Half the voters don’t think the US is in a crisis,,, they might even see it in opposite terms. It drives me crazy when the talking heads nit pick the dems when nothing can apparently change the cult members mind.
What's the tariff increase on stock and fund purchases that are not US companies only.
Let's not give the orange idiot any bright ideas.
It doesn't feel like a democracy when you have 1 psychopath calling all the shots and exhorting money from US law firms, tech companies, news/media outlets, etc. And shipping bodies off via mask covered ICE agents.
MAGA!!!! Rule buy decree!
Takes a special brand of con man (con men, really) to pull this stunt off.
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Yes, this is all chilling.
"Unless we overthrow them in some way, we’re going to keep losing.'
It doesn't feel like a democracy when you have 1 psychopath calling all the shots and exhorting money from US law firms, tech companies, news/media outlets, etc. And shipping bodies off via mask covered ICE agents.
MAGA!!!! Rule buy decree!
Takes a special brand of con man (con men, really) to pull this stunt off.
COUP D'ETAT.