I want to strongly speak out against this view, which I hear from too many directions. The idea that fascism arrives one week from today if we don't win some pivotal battle has been a consistently demoralizing force in attempts to resist Trump and his attacks on democracyhttps://twitter.com/BrynnTannehill/status/1299305312256757761 …
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My problem with the crisis-based approach to resistance is that people burn out quickly. This probably isn't the most important election of your lifetime, and democracy will still be in grave danger even if Trump is swept out in a landslide. It's a slow road in both directions
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I wonder if some of the darker thoughts about an extralegal takeover of the country by a lawless leadership are just a way of avoiding the fact that we live in a country where about half the population likes what is happening and wants more of it
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One final thought based on this excellent point. I remember the travel ban, when people filled the streets and airports in defense of neighbors and coworkers, and then we won a court injunction and the energy completely disappeared from the movementhttps://twitter.com/ckoppelman/status/1299440880777125890 …
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You are being too optimistic.
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Optimism is my great weakness
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and it works, just saying
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Trump may not, but his GOP enablers have been playing these kind of shady anti-democracy games for decades. They'll have no problem doing the work for him, especially if it means it gets them in his good graces.
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Genuinely cannot figure this out: are you imagining that we’re currently a perfect democracy and 2020 would be first first step on the long road to authoritarianism? What if that road started with the electoral college fiasco of 2000?
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They’ll be harder to win because they will be less free and fair. It might not be technically impossible for Democrats to win, but that’s not much of a bar to clear.
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“Free and fair just much harder to win” isn’t free and fair then. As it stands now, gerrymandering and the EC have ensured the popular will of the country doesn’t win elections, and the dismantling of the VRA ended any sort of freedom and fairness in vast swaths of the country.
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