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Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

There's a problem with your logic, though.

The two dozen districts that have been flipped in the last few elections were solidly Republican (nearly all won by Donald in 2024 by double digits), where attempts to restrict voting are focusing on solidly Democratic districts. In effect, the voters are behaving in ways that Republicans did not account for, so in a way, you sorta can vote out fascism, at least when the people trying to enable fascism democratically are incompetent and lack foresight.

Also why they abandoned the extreme gerrymandering effort. That is backfiring too.

Granted, if Donald decides to order the military to seize polling stations in the fall, all of that falls by the wayside, but as long as we have a system where voting is possible (and there's no good reason to assume that's changing), you can theoretically vote the fascists out. (Though I'd argue the only real choice we have right now is between fascists and collaborators.)

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The way they didn’t expect voters to behave is by actually going out and voting for democrats

America is not an easy country to actually destroy at a legal level and institute true fascism

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

is by actually going out and voting for democrats

Yup. They miscalculated big-time, assuming they had a mandate for this when, in reality, people just hated that Democrats didn't do anything to address affordability.