Fuck The USA

By Will Bunch

But Trump 2.0 has worked hard at perfecting the art of what the experts call “competitive authoritarianism,” in which an ostensibly democratic opposition is allowed to exist as long as it’s guaranteed they can never succeed. The CBS Evening News still comes on at 6:30 p.m., and the Washington Post is still sending you push alerts, but pro-Trump billionaires have made them zombie newsrooms. The federal courts still rule against the White House’s accelerating erasure of the Constitution, but the regime just hides its secret police in a Penske rental truck and ignores them.

But everything is bigger in Texas, including the assaults on democracy. The Trump-driven redistricting scheme is a way to hold the 2026 midterms, yet effectively cancel them by canceling out your vote. As the gerrymandering war goes nuclear and spreads uncontrollably like a Canadian wildfire from state to state, millions of Americans will cast votes on Nov. 3, 2026, that won’t mean a dadgum thing, because the outcome of the election would have basically been predetermined by a computer.