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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservatives decided to arrange for him a sort of Make-a-Wish Foundation version of Bush v. Gore
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Josh Kovensky
@JoshKovensky
"Apparently believing it would be too cruel to cut Trump off from his institutional support base completely, conservatives decided to arrange for him a sort of Make-a-Wish Foundation version of Bush v. Gore."
A Coup Is a Coup
Its still an illegitimate power grab, even if Republican operatives are only doing it to protect Trumps fragile ego.
newrepublic.com
Josh Kovensky
@JoshKovensky
"Apparently believing it would be too cruel to cut Trump off from his institutional support base completely, conservatives decided to arrange for him a sort of Make-a-Wish Foundation version of Bush v. Gore."
A Coup Is a Coup
Its still an illegitimate power grab, even if Republican operatives are only doing it to protect Trumps fragile ego.
newrepublic.com
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Conservatives decided to arrange for him a sort of Make-a-Wish Foundation version of Bush v. Gore (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Nov 2020
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Faux pas
(14,580 posts)1. Let
the baby bunker boy go! We have no fucks left to give for his feelings for shit sake.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)2. Wasn't this the "eff your feelings" crowd?
Snowflakes.
Poor widdle president.
NCDem47
(2,236 posts)3. Great point!
I'm using that moving forward.
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)4. From the excellent New Republic piece linked to this tweet
To sum up the current situation, the U.S. is experiencing a fake self-coup that requires the administration to do exactly the things a regime would do if it were attempting to stage an actual self-coup, with millions of people sincerely believing the stated justifications for the strongmans consolidation of power and with the regimes legislative allies playing along, under the apparent belief that eventually the courts, which are stocked with unqualified loyalists, will soon say the game is done.
No one who might be able to break the spell of Trump seems willing to rip off the Band-Aid. Many conservatives are probably worried that a wounded Trump might use a dolchstoss story to popularize some alternative to the institutional conservative movement and its house organ, Fox News. (There are anecdotal reports already of angry MAGA heads jumping ship from Fox News, where reality now sometimes interrupts fantasy, for One America News, where the world is still presented as Trump would like it to be.) Perhaps, in their nightmares, it culminates in some Bull Moosestyle 2024 presidential run that decimates the entire Republican Party.
So, out of self-preservation, they will maintain the strange kayfabe that has characterized this era until the very end. But playing along with an authoritarian power grab because you dont expect it to work is still playing along with an authoritarian power grab. Trumps Republican smarts believe they shouldnt be held responsible for it because, like wrestling, none of it is real. For once, the marks are closer to the truth
https://newrepublic.com/article/160187/trump-coup-2020-election-republican-power-grab
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