Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.
More evidence of buyer’s remorse, and that it’s only the smaller, culty faction of the Republican Party that supports what’s happening right now. The majority of Americans very clearly do not.
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Given the reason and opportunity, they will vote Republic卐n
You can keep telling yourself that, but with more than two dozen districts flipped this year, the evidence for your point of view seems to be lacking. (At least from where I’m sitting.)
They are voting this way because the policies they wanted from TЯ☭mp are affecting them in their everyday lives.
For example, they see their precious second amendment rights being stripped right in front of their eyes (Alex Pretti). Republicans can’t have that happen. They’d have one less god to worship.
TЯ☭mp
What do you mean by this? Are you saying Trump is a secret communist?
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They asked what you think it means. Please say something about that.
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If Trump was a communist, that would be nice, but no, I genuinely don’t know what you’re saying here.
I’d guess that either they think communism = all things bad (because they have no clue what communism is), or they think Trump is on Putin’s side and they didn’t notice that Russia hasn’t been communist for 35 years now. The most charitable reading is that they think Trump is authoritarian and that the USSR was not so much communist as an authoritarian dictatorship despite its communist rhetoric. That last one is at least debatable, but it requires more nuance than is probably there in sticking a hammer and sickle in the middle of Trump’s name.
Your childish understanding of politics is perfectly congruent with the immaturity evident in your behavior
Guy who thinks Trump is a communist also acts like an insufferable child, go figure
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A progressive candidate just won in Fort Worth. Centrists were fulla shit when they said that progressives can’t win in red districts, just like they’re fulla shit about everything else.
Can’t wait to see why they think this doesn’t count.
A progressive candidate just won in Fort Worth. Centrists were fulla shit when they said that progressives can’t win in red districts,
Ironically, Republicans won in 2024 in part running on the progressive platform: mainly a rhetorical focus on affordability.
The democrats will win congress next year, perhaps a democratic president will win in 2028. Then the gop will win congress and the presidency in the 2030s
This is expected and does not change what is happening. These elections are drama to distract. Many who fear fascism will find hope when the good guys win, and citizen’s attempts to reform the government will be diluted. Then they will be horrified again later when the bad guys win.
We have been watching these flips dictated by elections that fail United Nations tests for almost two generations now. Each good cop/bad cop cycle makes us poorer and less healthy and less well fed.
This is expected and does not change what is happening.
Agreed. That’s the most bleak part of it all. Whether you play for the red or blue team, you’re only really voting fascist or collaborator in the end.
The only way to win is to not play. There may not be the ability to organize change in the national level, ever again. But I feel states and towns can improve things
Frankly, yeah.
I don’t think we have any real power to sway things at the federal level. (Unless you’re a billionaire or willing to pull a Player 2.)
It’s still possible to do a vast amount of good in your local community, and I think everyone should. For example, Kansas City’s city council just passed a 5-year moratorium on any permits or zoning for ICE “mass detention” facilities.
Something something you can’t vote out fascism something
Try voting and maybe you can
The DNC isn’t counter-posed to fascism, though. You can vote out the GOP, but this doesn’t remove fascism, because the basis of fascism is capitalist decay and not this or that capitalist party choice.
The DNC is fine with fascism. They fought Mamdani harder than they fought Trump
Yep.
You can’t vote away fascism.
If fascists allow themselves to be voted out, fascism didn’t go away. It’s just been put on pause until they win again.
We have to win every single election for the rest of history. They only have to install someone willing to end US elections once. Unless we solve this problem in a more permanent fashion, the fascists will always just be one more election from taking over again.
The problem is that: this will continue to happen until Republicans realize that they need it to stop happening. And by “it,” I mean elections.
lol we’ve had elections through more tyrannical presidents than Trump, through every war, and you think they’re gonna cancel American elections or something?
Best they can do is cheat in the boring traditional ways
lol we’ve had elections through more tyrannical presidents than Trump
Unreal. When will people wake the fuck up?
Save this comment exchange, and message me in November.
How about you message me when that happens
Oh and don’t forget to vote :)
There’s a problem with your logic, though.
The two dozen districts that have been flipped in the last few elections were solidly Republican (nearly all won by Donald in 2024 by double digits), where attempts to restrict voting are focusing on solidly Democratic districts. In effect, the voters are behaving in ways that Republicans did not account for, so in a way, you sorta can vote out fascism, at least when the people trying to enable fascism democratically are incompetent and lack foresight.
Also why they abandoned the extreme gerrymandering effort. That is backfiring too.
Granted, if Donald decides to order the military to seize polling stations in the fall, all of that falls by the wayside, but as long as we have a system where voting is possible (and there’s no good reason to assume that’s changing), you can theoretically vote the fascists out. (Though I’d argue the only real choice we have right now is between fascists and collaborators.)
The way they didn’t expect voters to behave is by actually going out and voting for democrats
America is not an easy country to actually destroy at a legal level and institute true fascism
is by actually going out and voting for democrats
Yup. They miscalculated big-time, assuming they had a mandate for this when, in reality, people just hated that Democrats didn’t do anything to address affordability.
For now anyway
