He’s just a symptom.
Yup he doesn’t have to win, as long as one of his lackeys do.
At this point any Republican that has a shot would be a disaster. Just look at Project 2025. It doesn’t need to be Trump to completely regress to a dictatorship.
The virus being a range of sociopathic beliefs and behaviour justified as “conservatism”.
I blame “Infinite growth”. i.e. Capitalism
Cancer also attempts to grow infinatly. I see a connection
Don’t forget leaded gas!
So what I don’t get is, does the US not have any mechsnism in place that would prevent this? Like could a party named “We will turn this country to literal fascis and we will kill several minority groups” just…run?
I don’t think we have preventive measures in place so, yeah.
The ones that would exist are undermined. With Trump having appointed many of the judges including the Supreme Court, the different branches that could keep the president in check have lost their teeth. The different states are too independent and different that they could organize against the federal government… It’s rather the federal government keeping some of the states in check. Once that one is gone, you’ll only have some states that are a safe haven.
It’s the Republican Party in general. Specifically because they’ve largely suborned themselves to Trump’s insanity, because they think they can control him and cement themselves into power. If you remember last time, that didn’t work at all.
I think it worked a lot. look at the judges they were able to appoint
I was more talking about the “controlling him” angle, because he was absolutely unmoored from reality on day 1 and never got any better.