Trump/MAGA Will Not Allow The Midterms To Be Free And Fair Elections.
Every non-fascist (that is, not Trump/MAGA) must accept and act on the reality of Trump and MAGA exercising authoritarian control of the electoral process, in the 2026 midterms and after, and the Cassandra’s are multiplying fast. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the certainty of Trump/MAGA not accepting or allowing electoral defeat, in the midterms and after:
“...Stacey Abrams...helped me understand that voter suppression isn’t a single thing or a law, but rather a thousand little cuts and changes, maybe designed to discourage just a few voters, but which can make a big difference when elections are as close as ours. Abrams founded Fair Fight, the voting-rights organization...[and the] 10 Steps Campaign. She points out that the arguments we are having about gerrymandering have some new aspects:
'We have never had a president of the United States explicitly state that the line should be redrawn, not based on population, but based on voter outcome. And when you do that, when you decide that the districts are not designed to allow voters to elect their leaders, it is designed to allow leaders to elect their voters—that is a shift of power, and it is exactly what redistricting is designed to preclude.'
This was her conclusion:
'We could win. But we are very, very, very likely to lose if we keep treating this as business as usual. This is not about whether this Democrat wins or that Republican wins. This is about whether democracy wins or authoritarianism wins.'”
Everything’s important right now. But Trump/MAGA will not accept or allow any electoral defeat of any significance, regardless of anything non-fascists want to think or hope for or believe. Trump/MAGA will have to be stopped from using every illegal, amoral, un-democratic, un-Constitutional, blatant power grab authoritarian measure necessary, including but in no way limited to the threat and reality of violence, to refuse and disallow electoral defeat. Say it again: in the 2026 midterms, MAGA is going to have to be stopped from crushing the last vestiges of American democracy. Or to build on Ms. Abrams’ analogy, bleeding democracy out, in full view of this country and the world.
This is it. The 2026 midterms are where American democracy lives or dies. Or, the midterms are where the U.S. either: 1) collapses irrevocably into an extended period of noe-fascist authoritarianism, and all this implies, or, 2) begins the extended and in no way guaranteed process of beating back the same and rebuilding a durable republic.
This is it, folks. If non-fascists don’t organize and mobilize like never before to protect and ensure the outcome of the 2026 midterms, it’s over. Not kinda over, not sorta over. Over. Done. Kaput. This is it, where our country lives or dies. This is it, boys and girls. Say it again: This is it.
Thank you, Jim, for highlighting Mark Hertling’s great article on the war crimes being committed against the civilians of Ukraine.
Billions are being wasted killing American citizens when these same funds could be used to help our allies, in this monk’s very humble opinion. In the hood, the right thing to do is help our friends and allies. That is how we all survive as a community, even in the cold of winter. We fight together.
This monk is going to go “frugal” again to save money to donate to Razom. And, thanks to info from others, this monk is also going to donate to United24. 🙏🙏
The question becomes what do we do about it. Continue at our everyday lives? Until everything is gone? Or stand together in small ways that in the whole are great?
It is the democracy and has been for years. It is the Conservative Movement that successfully got the Voting Rights Act gutted by the SC. It is the Conservative Movement that got the justices need to give Trump presidential immunity. It is the Conservative Movement that got the justices the take freedoms from women by theocrats. It is the Conservative Movement that wrote Project 2025. It is the Conservative Movement that has backed the dehumanization of so many different Thems - a basic part of the authoritarian playbook. It is the Conservative Movement that attacks every part of the First Amendment and a bunch of other Amendments. It is the Conservative Movement that has created the kind of country that has given rise to those proud to be Nazis.
Jim, THANK YOU for the link here to your Insta from Springfield. Hearing what's happening, what people are already experiencing, the tension & anticipation... makes me think of our neighbors across the globe, like being in a big town in Western Ukraine, wondering when the war will come for you. Our sisters & brothers in Springfield wonder when the President of our own country will set his schock troops upon them.
Please keep us up to date when you can. And be careful out there
Not a good idea. It's too much like that winner "Defund the police"; and it fits right into the narrative that Democrats want open borders to mint voters and ultimately replace white people in America.
It's being reported that Greg Bovino reported directly to Kristi Noem/Corey Lewendowski, not to the USBP or ICE administrations.
Trump/MAGA Will Not Allow The Midterms To Be Free And Fair Elections.
Every non-fascist (that is, not Trump/MAGA) must accept and act on the reality of Trump and MAGA exercising authoritarian control of the electoral process, in the 2026 midterms and after, and the Cassandra’s are multiplying fast. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the certainty of Trump/MAGA not accepting or allowing electoral defeat, in the midterms and after:
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/they-arent-acting-like-they-might
Read it, and read the quotes from Stacy Abrams:
“...Stacey Abrams...helped me understand that voter suppression isn’t a single thing or a law, but rather a thousand little cuts and changes, maybe designed to discourage just a few voters, but which can make a big difference when elections are as close as ours. Abrams founded Fair Fight, the voting-rights organization...[and the] 10 Steps Campaign. She points out that the arguments we are having about gerrymandering have some new aspects:
'We have never had a president of the United States explicitly state that the line should be redrawn, not based on population, but based on voter outcome. And when you do that, when you decide that the districts are not designed to allow voters to elect their leaders, it is designed to allow leaders to elect their voters—that is a shift of power, and it is exactly what redistricting is designed to preclude.'
This was her conclusion:
'We could win. But we are very, very, very likely to lose if we keep treating this as business as usual. This is not about whether this Democrat wins or that Republican wins. This is about whether democracy wins or authoritarianism wins.'”
Everything’s important right now. But Trump/MAGA will not accept or allow any electoral defeat of any significance, regardless of anything non-fascists want to think or hope for or believe. Trump/MAGA will have to be stopped from using every illegal, amoral, un-democratic, un-Constitutional, blatant power grab authoritarian measure necessary, including but in no way limited to the threat and reality of violence, to refuse and disallow electoral defeat. Say it again: in the 2026 midterms, MAGA is going to have to be stopped from crushing the last vestiges of American democracy. Or to build on Ms. Abrams’ analogy, bleeding democracy out, in full view of this country and the world.
This is it. The 2026 midterms are where American democracy lives or dies. Or, the midterms are where the U.S. either: 1) collapses irrevocably into an extended period of noe-fascist authoritarianism, and all this implies, or, 2) begins the extended and in no way guaranteed process of beating back the same and rebuilding a durable republic.
This is it, folks. If non-fascists don’t organize and mobilize like never before to protect and ensure the outcome of the 2026 midterms, it’s over. Not kinda over, not sorta over. Over. Done. Kaput. This is it, where our country lives or dies. This is it, boys and girls. Say it again: This is it.
Thank you, Jim, for highlighting Mark Hertling’s great article on the war crimes being committed against the civilians of Ukraine.
Billions are being wasted killing American citizens when these same funds could be used to help our allies, in this monk’s very humble opinion. In the hood, the right thing to do is help our friends and allies. That is how we all survive as a community, even in the cold of winter. We fight together.
This monk is going to go “frugal” again to save money to donate to Razom. And, thanks to info from others, this monk is also going to donate to United24. 🙏🙏
Slava Ukraini! 🙏
Seems like we are witnessing mission creep by practically every agency of
government, and it's looking more
and more like a march to authoritarianism
by the day.
The question becomes what do we do about it. Continue at our everyday lives? Until everything is gone? Or stand together in small ways that in the whole are great?
Thank you for your reporting in Springfield.
It is the democracy and has been for years. It is the Conservative Movement that successfully got the Voting Rights Act gutted by the SC. It is the Conservative Movement that got the justices need to give Trump presidential immunity. It is the Conservative Movement that got the justices the take freedoms from women by theocrats. It is the Conservative Movement that wrote Project 2025. It is the Conservative Movement that has backed the dehumanization of so many different Thems - a basic part of the authoritarian playbook. It is the Conservative Movement that attacks every part of the First Amendment and a bunch of other Amendments. It is the Conservative Movement that has created the kind of country that has given rise to those proud to be Nazis.
It is the democracy that is so very much at risk.
Jim, THANK YOU for the link here to your Insta from Springfield. Hearing what's happening, what people are already experiencing, the tension & anticipation... makes me think of our neighbors across the globe, like being in a big town in Western Ukraine, wondering when the war will come for you. Our sisters & brothers in Springfield wonder when the President of our own country will set his schock troops upon them.
Please keep us up to date when you can. And be careful out there
Re: Abolishing ICE:
Not a good idea. It's too much like that winner "Defund the police"; and it fits right into the narrative that Democrats want open borders to mint voters and ultimately replace white people in America.
It's being reported that Greg Bovino reported directly to Kristi Noem/Corey Lewendowski, not to the USBP or ICE administrations.
Decapitate ICE is a better idea.
Destroy democracy at home, give Ukrainian territory to Russia. That’s where we are.