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Also, ICE doesn't need to be everywhere, they need to be at a few dozen key locations in swing states.
Yeah...... People seem to be forgetting that bush stole an election via the brooks brothers riot in one county. With just how fucked up the American electorial system evolved it only takes one country to vastly change the course of American history.
As far as the courts, just in the last couple years we've seen the judicial branch is more than willing to reinterpret history and law to empower the current administration.
The bigger the blowout is, the less marginal risk that any given precinct being fucked with can alter the outcome in his favor. Even greater reason to mobilize the vote as much as possible.
The electoral college also has nothing to do with the midterms.
It's important to identify threats, but it's also critical not to aggrandize their power and make them appear invincible. They are desperate to instill defeatism into the ranks of their opposition. But their bravado betrays their weakness.
They absolutely rely on the obedience of various pillars of support throughout society to retain their power and legitimacy. Those pillars can be convinced and/or forced to cease their obedience and in some cases to actively provide support to the opposition. None of this is new or unique to America. Tyrannical regimes have been removed from power many time through nonviolent mass movements. We can learn from them if we choose to.
Excellent post. Thank you for taking the time.
I can only add that if we keep on showing up to resist, to make our peaceful non-consent loud and obvious like we did on the last Friday in January, the less support any of this planned and possible election fuckery will have. The people who desperately want to get or keep power do not want to actually have to take on the public hate of the entire country, like ICE has. But it's up to us.
yes, I do think they under-anticipate the way that ICE could be used surgically - just flipping a few elections could be crucial ...
I'm concerned that they've already undermined trust in the elections so much that neither side will accept a losing outcome as legitimate. The larger attack on democracy has already succeeded. I hope I'm wrong.
I think the GOP's support for trump has always been an endgame. Demographically speaking - their party was dying. This was always one last chance to drive the bus completely off the cliff - destroy education, trust in institutions, the US's international cooperation from aid to NATO, wreck it all, if they can't drive the bus forever then no one gets to.
Like we see from the files, it's a cabal of evil fucks from a huge variety of motivations - racists, sexists, climate denial, oligarchs and techbros all lining up together to fix this whole liberal democracy problem.