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ItsNotA2Mer posted...

Project 2025. Educate yourself.

I'm not going to pretend that it's painless. Republicans have already pushed or attempted bullshit laws from "cops can do anything they please" to "it's a crime to call a trans youth by their proper pronouns."

But literally every election has somebody claiming that it's the last one we'll ever have if the wrong party wins. Democracy was supposed to die with thunderous applause when Bush was president. I had an employer and a family member who claimed that Obama was going to turn America communist and that we'd never have another election. People said that Trump was going to refuse to vacate the first time that he was president and that it was dangerous to give nuclear launch codes to a man whose catchphrase was "You're fired!" (The freakin' Avengers said that.)

If it were Ron DeSantis or Marjorie Taylor Greene, I might be worried that democracy was going to end with the next election. If reelected, Trump will allow more hate crimes, more police brutality, more fascist state laws to be passed, and we'll do our best to undo the damage in four years. We won't be able to bring back those who will die because of him, but we might be able to systematically undo some of the harm. It will be more difficult for the left to get elected if Republicans are allowed to pass what laws they please, but it won't be impossible.

I don't want that man back in the White House. He's validated white supremacy as an ideology and fascism as a political stance. I don't want the harm that he'll bring to peoples in this nation. But he won't be able to make himself Fuhrer and put the final nail in democracy's coffin if that happens.