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Investigations would start in the house, and have to be signed off on by Mike Johnson. He was elected with over a 70% margin and his voters love what's happening. The other option would be John Thune, who has about a 20% margin in South Dakota, and his people love what's happening too.
Unless you can change those facts, America will become a fascist authoritarian nation.
Also even if his voters hate what’s happening there’s nothing they can do about it now. All the power was handed over and the damage is done, no amount of regret will change anything now that the GOP feels capable of doing literally whatever they want and have all these majorities.
The writing was on the wall but that country is largely illiterate so it didn’t much matter.
Nah, even with the lack of accountability, if they saw real movement in their own polling, it would change their behavior quickly. Even without an election coming up, mass plummeting of opinion polls is their warning that first their funding will dry up, they might not care, and second people will start building gallows outside their office. While the cops hide from the crowd. The police can really only control a minority of the population. If a real majority shows up, they back down out of self preservation. As happened in multiple towns the past few days, or back in 2020 when they took over areas of Portland.
We say that but it only goes so far/it needs to go very far if we want to see what they’re doing right now actually stop or, if we dare to dream, be reversed. And the more they do right now the less actual support they need, come election time. Remember that conservatives are so terrified of some made-up “leftist” that they will even admit, if they have any self-awareness at all, to voting against their own interests in order to avoid that scenario. It’ll take a lot to convince to them to simply not show up, let alone hold their representatives accountable. And even if the Democrats get any sort of power, will they actually do anything with it or continue to sit on their hands while criminals run around?
I’m still hopeful because I have to be, but we can’t just “nah” away the very real chance that the country is fucking toast for at least the next four years and that outrage will only propel them to work harder towards making sure they don’t face consequences, not to doing the right thing. It’s how it’s always happened, and it’s way more aggressive than it’s ever been.