Huge, important thread:
In 2020 some were saying "steal" line was unhelpful because it would demoralize voters in future. True or no, many decided to cheer on the 2022 election despite serious doubts that there would be free elections going forward. Youngkin surprise in Virginia seemed to help (thread)
Various possibilities were entertained RE 2020: 1) there was a steal but they could only steal prez, not local and congress; 2) the Dems hated Trump and once he was out wouldn't dare use same against GOP reps; 3) GOP made a deal to oust Trump in exchange for gains in House, etc.
Other theories were thrown around but all assumed that GOP and its consultant class were competent people interested in winning. Forgotten was how their entire candidate roster was crushed by a reality TV multiple divorcee playboy in 2016, even in evangelical South Carolina, etc.
Forgotten also in the "GOP will want to win elections after 2020 and won't let steal happen to them" was that they let themselves get totally wiped out with these same fraudulent tactics in California in *2018*...when OC was "flipped" along with other Red California counties
The GOP diddled itself in 2018 as they were purged from California and the Dems consolidated power, disenfranchising opposition completely; they were crushed in 2016 by Trump; they did nothing in 2020. But people thought the real smart and cynical GOP would somehow reemerge? How?
I know frogs who were staffers in some of these races. They did what they could but had no power to change the idiotic ways of the GOP consultant class. They're dopes and losers. They're not cynical manipulators, they're hamhanded morons and have no plan. Some are indeed traitors
For example races like that of
@bgmasters and
@joekent16jan19 were sabotaged by GOPe and their proxies. In these and a few other cases they're happy to let the Trump 2020 scenario repeat and see the Dems blatantly steal from challengers to their hold on authority within the GOP.
But their collusion with Dem steal in 2020 and now is passive, not a Machiavellian orchestration; they themselves get crushed in other cases like California, and do nothing about it. The GOPe fundamentally care only about preserving jobs for themselves, friends and relatives
The Carli Fiorina phenomenon is fundamental to GOP "strategy": run some vain rich idiot, pilfer them of $$$ while you put your nephews in consultant and campaign jobs. They lose but you don't care because you still have job/career.
It's the same with D'Santis now. He's not Fiorina and unlike her he's smart and has possible future path to presidency. But a run in 2024 would split and crush the right for a generation. The GOPe don't care though; they keep their and nephews' jobs
Here's the energy and tactics that GOP used in 2000. Look up Brooks Brothers Riot. GOP lawchads physically went in and stopped the steal. They didn't let others disenfranchise voters; the Dems are using the equivalent of physical violence at this moment. Where this GOP?
Courts won't step in if one side is threatening violence, as the Dems are now, while the GOP is meekly accepting "the letter" of laws that have been violated and impregnated. Judges now only feel immediate pressure from one side. The GOP are caponized morons for the most part.
In the end the first step must be the political expulsion of the GOP authorities, pundits responsible for failures really since 2008 at least--these same are trying use D'Santis now as their tool--and their replacement by men of energy and intelligence who realize this is war
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