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I get what you're going for, and I generally agree, it's easier to say it than actually deal with it: but if more people stood up to it, these bullies wouldn't be so emboldened. Everyone backing the fuck down every time is literally part of why they're so fucking bold about it now. This has been going on for a decade now. Do you think a decade is long enough to let them become more emboldened from people pissing themselves and giving up?
And secondly... Dude congress has gotten jack fucking shit done in 20 fucking years. We would have to completely blow the Republicans out of the water with major majorities in both the House and Senate, and even then at best we've got two years to get anything done.
We literally have half of Congress in the bag for the people committing these crimes. They won't go out of their way to punish them. We have the Supreme Fucking Court tell us that a President is totally immune to whatever as long as his name is Trump.
So yeah, sorry, the only thing we can actually functionally fucking do at the moment is to stand up to the bullies.
EDIT:
Also, if Trump wins, they will become super emboldened and basically become Trump's Brownshirts, terrorizing the country at large. Will you still have the same position? That it's better to turn tail and just give up?
When fascism has already won, will you think it was worth it to have saved your own skins? Because your skins are up for grabs if Trump wins. Everyone's is. Saving your own skins won't last forever if he wins, will it?
When the fascist dictator is putting innocent people to death, is the best solution to protect your own and fuck everyone else? No wonder this country is falling apart, nobody is willing to stand up for anyone else. No fucking unity.
EDIT II: Here is some poetry from someone who turned tail and kept his mouth shut during World War II because protecting his own was more important. He was pro-Hitler before the war.