A couple of points I’d add to this:
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Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Put another way, should Trump choke on an overcooked steak tomorrow and die, the threat won’t be ended. The cancer is the entire GQP, not just its leader.
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Americans as a whole have a desire for authoritarianism. ‘Make those bad people behave the way I want them to’ is endemic in American culture.
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Not only can it happen here, it has, twice, and damn near took our Democracy down with it both times.
Yeah. My first vote was for Bill Clinton in '92. I voted for him again in '96. I saw no difference between Gore and Bush and didn’t vote in 2000. We got the utter shitshow that was Bush 43, but even then I still voted third party in some elections.
No more. Team Red is now Team Fascist, and either Red or Blue will be in office unless and until Team Green or Team Yellow or whatever you got can take more than half of their political ideology’s votes.
That’s the real problem here. Third Parties cap out at 10% of the total vote, or about 20% of their ideologies’ parties vote share. They can’t win THIS party’s primaries. How can I expect them to win the country?