In contrast, MAGA Republicanism is fundamentally centered on accruing power and codifying hierarchy at the expense of everything else.

Half the voting population elected a fascist demagogue. Fundamentally, swing state voters are not the issue: that's just a weird artifact of our electoral system. The issue is that something like 40-45% of the population will literally vote for *anyone* in the Republican party, even if they're "America's Hitler". Project 2025 made it blatantly obvious what they were voting for.

Even if the Democratic party better adapts to swing voters' needs -- even if they win! -- that 40-45% remains a ticking time bomb. A democracy can't survive when close to half the voting population values party victory over democracy.

The problem wasn't really Harris, who got very close to half the vote. The problem is that half the voting population does not think that electing a fascist demagogue is that big of a deal, or compares favorably to electing a boring centrist. This suggests that our civic culture is fundamentally broken at the moment. You can't run a society like this!

Party of personal responsibility and all that.

> The civil war in the far-right is coming down to Jews: https://forward.com/culture/851192/the-civil-war-in-the-far-...

> ‘Unforgivable Sin’: Pentagon Reportedly ‘Hiding’ US Deaths in Iran War: https://www.commondreams.org/news/pentagon-hiding-us-deaths-...

> Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-mill...

> Trump says he’s banning MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/trump-white-house-ban-msnow-...

> Trump says his son’s wedding party being bankrolled by a Russian oligarch is ‘totally allowed’: https://apnews.com/article/trump-jr-wedding-oligarch-fbd62b7...

Human rights abuses, extrajudicial murders, egregious corruption, gutter racism, suppression of speech, erosion of democracy, and stupidity beyond any satire: same shit nonstop every single day for the past two years.

Anyone who supports Republicans with full knowledge of what they've been doing is actively supporting evil. And yes, any informed person with an iota of morality should be up in arms about this.

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Yes, many people *genuinely* give a fuck that tech leaders are promoting white supremacy and ethnic cleansing, and there will be actual consequences for this.

What we choose to call things *is* important.

Sure, you save some lives. Then the military realizes they can apply violence far more liberally than they ever could before. Subsequent conflicts result in a whole lot more death for the losing side. Maybe a lot more "militar-aged men" end up as cannon fodder for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Or... do those lives not count? Depends on your definition of "evil," I guess: I'm using the Christian one.

And to a large degree, there is little point in rationally debating these concerns as they are rooted in racial animus. If somebody deeply feels that their glorious white race is being replaced by hordes of deranged brown immigrants, that's not a position they can be argued out of: it's an axiomatic outlook on the nature of society and humanity that, for the most part, only generational turnover (and maybe life experience) can correct.

This is not "homeless pooping in the bushes," but just "gypsies". And the (very, very intentional) juxtaposition of killing wolves to deporting an entire ethnic group is revolting.