by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
The issue is no so much that DeSantis keeps screwing up, it’s that he keeps stress testing the law to see what he can get away with. This heartens his supporters and alarms his detractors. There is going to come a point where he wins a huge autocratic win.
What’s worse, Trump’s second term — should it happen — will be vengeful and radical to the point that he could, unto himself, spark a Second American Civil War one way or another.
There is such a deluge of fascist bullshit being generated by autocrat state governments that it’s inevitable that MAGA — lead by DeSantis or Trump — will score some huge autocratic win.
And THAT of course, leads to the question of what will be the political consequences of such a win. Will there be something to a Civil War or or will we just shrug as we continue our slouch towards autocracy? I don’t have an answer for you. It could go either way. It really could.
