No see, we have a president who has been utterly fucking up what any properly terrifying and capably evil fucker would have dreamed to have land in their lap. Guarantee Cheney would have been shitting kittens to see something like this rather than 9/11 because he had to play up 9/11 to excuse ridiculous overreach, while a global pandemic actually needs ridiculous overreach!
This is much less useful than 9/11. Even if Trump hadn't stoked the flames, people "well actually" denying that the pandemic is a big deal would have still happened, because it has little bombast. We haven't even gotten a front-page photograph of nurses stepping over the dead in a hospital hallway yet, this disaster has no more appeal than the other host of problems in America that kill people constantly. It even has less bombast than war dead, admittedly because the US government can't publish those photos without somewhat fucking themselves.
It now occurs to me that forcing the Bush administration to publish photos of war dead probably would have been a good strategy back in the day, might have boosted the anti-war movement, such as it was.
So right now with Trump fucking all the things up like he does, he's putting new states in play electorally, he's endangering what were once safe senate seats, and we have the opportunity to undo the redistricting shit which Rove did in 2010.
So?
You want to do that, but why should the
Democrats want to do that? Gerrymandering didn't start in 2010, they had their chance and didn't do anything about it before. Breaking the fragile shield of not publicly exposing all the cheating the Republicans do in literally every election has been the direction of the DNC for a long time - whether they do this because they think it's impractical or because they want the Republicans to reciprocate for the Democrats' own corruption is up for debate, but the party stance on this is pretty clear.
Right now the republicans are a minority party abusing structural advantages to remain in power, Biden is goddamn far from ideal but his coattails will help drag in enough leverage to completely undo the bullshit republicans have used for the last decade to fuck over everything.
Which is why Obama repealed the Patriot Act, punished the banks for destroying the global economy, brought the troops home, and was proactive about doing things that he could do without anyone else's approval like closing Gitmo. I am sure the most right-wing Democratic official who didn't get tossed out for doing a racism back in the good old days will repeat these achievements.
More than that, it becomes a serious consideration to split new york and california once we have a bare minority in the senate, so we can pick up four new senators and start actually making progress on undoing all the damage McConnell and his cunts have done.
Don't you think it would be more plausible to admit territories as states, which at least is a Constitutionally valid action, rather than splitting states who's only legal precedent happened in wild card void of the actual Civil War? Also neither of these things will happen. Why the fuck would either of the most powerful state parties in the Democratic Party ever agree to give up everything they have for this plan which the Democratic Party has never advocated?
Along with the new senators would come a redistribution of electoral votes and thus an end to the current reagan era republican party ever seeing power until it does something besides clinging desperately to racist white godbotherering males.
The modern GOP's very reason for existence is to ensure the corruption of the electoral system in their favor on every level possible. They'd give up everything else before letting this happen. They'd go to the military before accepting this outcome, not that they need to since this glorious election that's supposed to oust the GOP is
happening under their rules.A republican party forced to compromise and work with the other side of the aisle, forced to broaden it's appeal, would be better for everyone, and if they want to bitch and moan and grumble instead of grow, they can sit in the fucking corner while the grown-ups fix all the damage they've done, I don't care.
As they say, Republicans fantasize about exterminating Democrats and Democrats fantasize about successfully compromising with Republicans.
I'm not sure what a post-Trump era looks like for America, but I'm pretty sure the DNC doesn't know what it looks like either, just as nobody knew what a post-Dubya era looked like. And we've retained the evils of the Bush era just fine because of that. Not to put too fine a point on it, but nothing will fundamentally change, nor can it really.
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