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They know they have limited time and are running out of opportunities to do all their fascist nonsense so they're cramming it all in as fast as possible.
This is all great, it's a sign that the whole debacle is crumbling. I have no idea what's going to happen with Greenland, but whatever the outcome it won't impact the US any worse than what we're already experiencing.
But we have a day of great celebration ahead of us, and most bets place that day as happening sometime this year.
Yes, exactly. It's still an incredibly dangerous time for all of us, but they're going whole hog now because this is their last chance, and those in this shitstain of an administration know that if they don't consolidate power now, somehow, they never will.
I don't follow many political analysts, but I do follow Heather Cox Richardson because I admire her rigorous historical scholarship and style of presentation, and she agrees with you. She puts the rough timeframe as "between now and May," as in, if they don't succeed by May, they won't succeed. It will just crumble, as you say.
For myself, they did themselves no favor with the Minneapolis murder, because I've got the women I know who have watched the videos telling me that the asshole who shot her is the typical embodiment of pretty much every abuser they've ever personally had to deal with, and they all see some part of themselves in her. If that's the case, and it seems so from the nationwide protests that have sprung up everywhere with next to no notice, then they have most certainly pissed off the wrong crowd and narrowed their window of opportunity even further.
I certainly hope so.
Heather Cox Richardson is a fantastic political/historical analyst who I listen to on the regular, but this particular prediction seems pretty widespread right now among everyone paying attention.
I think things accelerated when Zohran Mamdani and many other leftist/progressive local political leaders swept the country. It was a confirmation of what the administration feared was coming, a mid-term wipe-out. That alongside the very real possibility that Trump could literally die at any moment, and they don't have remotely the political capital secured behind JD Vance to keep the flame of kayfabe alive, it's making them move recklessly and plow through rules and regulations to a degree that will cost them a lot later. After Trump is gone, they're all going to blame him for all the laws they broke and all the terrors they inflicted, but it won't stick if they go too far and they already have gone too far, so it's panic-mode.
The conservative base is, at best, tepid or ambivalent about Vance, at worst they hate his pasty ass. He certainly doesn't hold anyone's attention, he represents everything that Trump defied, he talks like a politician and doesn't ooze with the hate and contempt that makes Trump weirdly human to a lot of people. They try so hard it's hilarious, like that "I hate turkey" fiasco that fell to crickets and tumbleweeds. I think they thought they would have made more progress in securing a new right-wing leader by now, but events like Charlie Kirk and other high-profile divisions in the party have only eroded things worse for them.
Without that kind of raw political capital that Trump had, in terms of a fervorous, nationalist, dumb-as-fuck band of millions of armed nutcases who will support literally anything their leader says, the current administration and on through house and the judicial branch are royally fucked.