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If Republicans Are Fascists, What Are Democrats?
If it’s the Republican’s job to be fascists, I give them an A-. If it’s the Democrat’s job to fight fascism, I give them an F.
The Republicans are breaking themselves. We didn’t need the Democratic Party to do it for them. There is nothing the Democratic Party has done that in any way weakened the Republican Party.
It would have been so easy, too. I could have done it. People would have voted for Joe Average over either party’s candidate if we didn’t have a system that forced us to choose the lesser of two evils (Nobody can force you to choose evil, but that’s a different story). The Democratic Party simply had to permit candidates to win that were convincingly better than Trump. Instead, they gave you Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They gave you two of perhaps twenty people eligible to run for president whom the populace liked less than Donald Trump. They gave you a candidate who did not have the mental capacity to do the job and a candidate who could not convincingly demonstrate that her mental prowess was any better.
Honestly, how do you lose to Donald Trump? It can’t be easy. You either have to try very, very hard to lose or else you have to not try at all to win. With the Democratic Party, I suspect it was a combination of the two. They worked very very hard to walk the line between being only slightly…