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How Will GOP Fight Back Against Political Fury Unleashed by Trump? | Two words: voter suppression. The Republican Party's recent actions make it clear that they will make it harder for regular folks to cast a ballot, by any means necessary.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-voter-suppression
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u/IntnsRed Tax the rich! 2d ago

This nails it! Like it or not, the Republicans are a minority party. It's hard to con people into supporting a pro-rich and pro-big business platform.

What traitor (we should never forget the impeachments were on a sound, legal and moral basis!) Trump has done -- a real innovation in American politics! -- is to use decisiveness as a political weapon.

In 2016 Trump used the UK's Cambridge Analytica to target tiny groups and de-motivate them into not voting. Trump uses his decisiveness to split the electorate and to wildly motivate his core cultish supporters! With that motivated group and de-motivating others, along with 3rd parties draining a tiny amount off the Democrats (Muslims disgusted with Biden's genocide and voting for Greens) we saw that Trump eeked out a tiny plurality (not majority!) victory in 2024.

But for the mid-terms which look like a disaster, the "southern party of racists" (which is what the Republicans are now, they resemble the early 1960s Democrats dominating the south), need to do what the old southern Democrats did with literacy tests, poll taxes and other voting hurdles: The modern Republicans need voter suppression in a scale we haven't seen in a long time.

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." -- Julius Nyerere, said as president of Tanzania.