Democrats bet on appeals to neoconservatives — including war criminals like Dick Cheney — and touted harsh border policies, bolstering rather than challenging Republican anti-immigrant frameworks.

Kamala Harris may have relied on women to vote for abortion rights, but she promised little more than a potential return to the flawed and insufficient norm of Roe v. Wade, at best. Like President Joe Biden, she supported a genocide and failed to distinguish herself from extremist Zionists like Trump.

For Democrats, appealing to the right has been a disaster of realpolitik, especially in an electoral system that structurally favors Republicans anyway. But what’s worse, Democratic strategies have failed and harmed the most vulnerable communities both in the U.S. and those who suffer under the yoke of U.S.-backed wars.

There is an urgent need for social justice movement organizing, growing unions and union power, antagonism rather than acquiescence to existing power structures, and expansive networks of care and support. The most powerful social movements of the last decades did not primarily build on support from Democratic leadership under Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden. Nor did they collapse during Trump’s first tenure.

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        Reading a lot into that. He didn’t mean it literally and even if he did he says a lot of things he can’t promise

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            I don’t think we have to worry about never being able to vote again. I do think we have to worry about how the current election process does not actually represent the people’s voices regardless of which of the two reigning parties is in power.

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          He’s asked all sorts of people to do all sorts of terrible things, and though some stood in his way, usually tendering their resignation in doing so, I think that’s reason enough to take it very seriously. There are supporters of his who absolutely seriously suggest instating him as president permanently, and with control of every branch of government, there’s opportunity to do so.

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            Not gonna happen. Supreme Court wouldn’t allow it as the constitution stands, and lots of republicans would be against it. Not all Republicans are far right lunatics. There have been a number of left-leaning votes made by Republicans in Senate or House like keeping Obamacare.

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            He doesn’t have the level of power and support everybody is afraid of him having. There are still Republicans who will vote against him. Checks and balances will still work. He will not become Hitler.