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This is expected and does not change what is happening.

Agreed. That's the most bleak part of it all. Whether you play for the red or blue team, you're only really voting fascist or collaborator in the end.

The DNC isn't counter-posed to fascism, though. You can vote out the GOP, but this doesn't remove fascism, because the basis of fascism is capitalist decay and not this or that capitalist party choice.

You can't vote away fascism.

If fascists allow themselves to be voted out, fascism didn't go away. It's just been put on pause until they win again.

We have to win every single election for the rest of history. They only have to install someone willing to end US elections once. Unless we solve this problem in a more permanent fashion, the fascists will always just be one more election from taking over again.

The problem is that: this will continue to happen until Republicans realize that they need it to stop happening. And by "it," I mean elections.

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.)

For now anyway