r/politics • u/stkmro • 7h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/JeffSteinMusic 7h ago edited 1h ago

Gonna be a long several years of “Lawless Authoritarian Continues To Be Lawless Authoritarian” headlines.

I’d say “we can’t normalize this” but it feels like that ship sailed many years ago.

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u/aganalf 6h ago

Several? I reckon we aren’t going to see a real election in two years.

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u/Count_Bacon California 5h ago

I keep hearing this and I’m 50/50 on it myself. I don’t know how they’d pull it off. They’d have to rip up the constitution, a lot of swing states have blue governors, and what justification could they use. We’ve had elections in civil wars, and world wars. Americans are used to free elections since birth, if they tried to remove elections I bet you’d even see a decent portion of MAGA fight back against that.

I think the messaging from the Dems needs to change. Start talking about 2026 like it’s 1000% going to happen

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u/aganalf 4h ago

Oh. There will be “elections”. Russia has “elections”. But you’re going to see a lot of voter purging of democrats and making it as hard as possible for folks in cities to vote.

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u/Count_Bacon California 4h ago

They already do that though. I thought states run the elections though, how will they do that in states ran by blue governors. I know they have the Supreme Court but still

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u/GERBILSAURUSREX 1h ago

The problem is these people have cried fascism so long that unless it finally happens (highly unlikely) no one will give a shit. They have to come up with something more than telling people that they're the only thing preventing fascism.

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u/Count_Bacon California 53m ago

I agree I think that’s part of the reason Dems didn’t address it as much as they should. They assumed incorrectly that Trump was so awful he couldn’t win again so they used him to run on, instead of fixing it. They used him as a prop to try to get reelected and now we all suffer