by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
As I’ve written before, MAGA’s Big Lie argument boils down to they only see elections that they win as legitimate. And, really, what happened is this: Trump and the people in his administration got so wrapped up in the autocrat idea that they could never, ever lose power that when they did they were thrown for a loop.
So, there’s a huge chunk of the electorate that now wants an autocracy. They have broken free of any democratic norm and they have only one goal: make it so the MAGA New Right never, ever loses power again.
The natural ebb and flow of a democracy such as ours barely is, the Republican Party is going to gain power again eventually. Then they will consolidate power and that will be that. You can call that prediction “doom shit” all you like, but it’s the truth.
Our only other options are military junta or civil war.
