I dunno, almost half the US voting population likes the idea of King Donald, or did at one point, many still do, J6 kinda proved the point.
That’s because they believed he was a real patriot, genuinely intelligent, & held *THEIR* best interests at heart.
the thing about J6 is it makes that particular fantasy trio almost impossible to believe in: ‘conservatives’ have famously always been willing to flip in an instant on a “core issue” once it touches THEIR lives & THEIR loved ones
effect of this is two-pronged. The attempted rebellion rang everyone’s bell, but it didn’t wake everyone up; some are still caught in the bad dream they were sold (& willingly bought, mostly) & that makes them dangerous. Trying to fix the wrong things NEVER works, no matter how flawless a job was done.
…And the reverberations continue.
Consider: these are either the most faithful or the most blindly duped, but either way, they’re bought in to the hilt. Everything is on the line for them: their core beliefs, their sense of themselves, their core relationships, their freedom of action - it’s all on the line for them. THAT is what they poked, and there won’t be enough left of them to hose off if they’re truly held accountable for crossing that particular line. The need to succeed that breeds is demanding more and more energy & attention to ignore; like w/ the fnords, the effort to NOT SEE WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM is exhausting. Performance in every sense suffers. The struggle to STAY ASLEEP gets harder every day…and the cognitive dissonance between events and transparent cover stories grows.
‘Woke’ is indeed their enemy. Staying asleep long enough - listening only to the voices of their handlers despite the evidence of reality - is truly their only chance, and it’s not a good one
Whether they like it or not, they won’t succeed no matter what happens: if their ‘side’ wins & takes everything, there will be no payoff, no golden age for those with no gold; their electoral support will not matter - and neither will they. Welcome to the commodity labor pool, ex-citizen! May you find a master who will be kind & take care of you! Until then, word hard! Show ‘em how much better you are than all those brown folks!
However, the fascists of America apparently no longer need a king, and the war is on for a replacement as Donald goes down in flames.
I don’t think this bunch needs a king: in Plato, they were ALL “philosopher-kings”, and the billionaires club is 100% on board w/ that…I’m sure they have plans for “the ordering of all things”
Let's hope he takes the GOP down with him when he goes or at least divides them enough.
From ~74 million votes in ‘22, we can expect the ‘24 “GOP” electorate to split that number in half: 35 million is a high ceiling estimate of those who would still follow T-bone in ‘24, Republican Party or not. The remainder, 35-40 million, would vote Dem, find others to vote for, or sit out.
The overthrow suspects will continue to throw sand in every eye they can, but they will lose their majorities (see cognitive dissonance, above) & their funding (big money only pays for results), & their ability to field national candidates. DeSantis may do well against TFFG, but that’s definitely an aggressive fish’s in a dwindling pond.
And may I say, I think FloridaMan should be THE case that lets us rid ourselves of the 50-separate-satrapies notion of our states: the states are not independent nations & we shouldn’t feed their desire to be loose cannons, just like Florida (and now Wisconsin, their SC election upcoming).
Interesting thing, loose cannons: sounds almost funny, but on a warship under sail, a loose cannon could kill or maim every sailor on the gun deck. It could tear out the side of the ship, and if everything else went wrong too, it could sink the bloody ship itself…and that IMO is what we’re seeing in FloridaMan’s struggle to make Florida his own personal Guantanamo: a state government turned uncontrollable battering ram, tearing apart the ship of state from the inside