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Geoff G's avatar

The question is no longer "Can it happen here?" It's no longer "Will it happen here?" The question is: "It's happening here, where will it end?"

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Jennifer A's avatar

I stand firm in my belief that Kamala will win, and it won't be that close, popularly or electorally, for reasons I have enumerated at length in the comments previously. But I want to do a thought experiment and fast forward to next year- Harris and Walz are in the White House, and Trump is hopefully facing some legal consequences for his various and sundry perfidies. What does the GOP do? Are they able to course correct? Do they abandon the Stephen Millers and Heritage Foundations and retrench in the sort of conservatism one expects in a liberal democracy? Or do they read the tea leaves of the oligarch class and what this election has illuminated, and double down, find a new, more palatable version of Trump? What rough phoenix slouches towards Bethlehem to be born into the chasm?

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