Catch Trump If You Can

7 thoughts on “Catch Trump If You Can”

1. Republicans are either MAGA or they get angry when you even bring up Trump. Either way there is no one to resist. Trump is coming back and we'd better rally around Joe Biden for the sake of America's future.

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   1. Entities like The Bulwark dot com and the Republican Accountability Project are among the few Republican and/or conservative places that are firmly anti-Trump.

      They were enough in 2020 possibly to deny Trump his re-election. As I've posted here before, AZ, GA, WI were close enough that withholding votes from Trump and voting for down-ballot Republicans likely played a role.

      This year, Trump seemed to "get it" at least a little in his recognition that being firmly anti-abortion is not a winner for the Rs. Now he is sucking up big time to the religious zealots because some of those groups threatened to withhold support from him.

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      1. To your point…

         I heard a spiel this morning from one of the early morning evangelists. It was a direct and energetic statement repudiating democracy and declaring definitively that, “the US isn’t a democracy. It is a republic.”

         We all get his point. Not everyone should vote. Only those who follow the “Chosen One”. The threat from the Christian right should not be underestimated.

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         1. I’d suggest NOT overestimating the threat from the Evangelical Whites and other Christian Nationalists, too.

            PRRI did a deep dive:  A Christian Nation? Understanding the Threat of Christian Nationalism to American Democracy and Culture

            One key finding:  levels of support for the concepts of Christian Nationalism:

            • Adherents – 10%
            • Sympathizers – 19%
            • Skeptics – 39%
            • Rejectors – 29%
            • skipped / don’t know — 4%

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         2. Thanks, Duke. I haven’t seen that point made so succinctly before. The argument about the US being a republic versus a democracy is rooted in an elitist belief that “not everyone should vote“. 

            This  explains the reluctance to embrace the reality of voter suppression, as well as ongoing efforts to suppress the votes of poor and racial-minority citizens. 

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   2. Aye! The minority of US has always loved fascism ( not really being self aware of it).  MAGA or current fucked up GOP have capitalized on it since THEY CANNOT GET ELECTED ANY OTHER WAY.  We sane voters need to find 2 others of any point of view and convince them of this reality.  How we beat Boobert here in CD3. I am trying. 

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2. When I read the headline, I thought it might refer to the story out of Georgia today.  AP's article said:

   Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote in a letter to county Sheriff Pat Labat that she expects to announce the decisions sometime between July 11 and Sept. 1. She said she wanted to give Labat time to coordinate with local, state and federal agencies “to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the public.”

   “Open-source intelligence has indicated the announcement of decisions in this case may provoke a significant public reaction,” Willis wrote in the letter, adding that some could involve “acts of violence that will endanger the safety of our community.”

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