I think that’s the problem they’re running into. Much like the left, they want to think we’re closer to a revolutionary moment than we are. Nobody is taking the bait. Charlie Kirk wasn’t the beginning of the leftist uprising. They’re going into these cities only to be met by people holding signs and dancing. The liberals in charge aren’t doing much to resist them, just letting them take whoever. The cops aren’t fed up enough to refuse orders. They can’t seem to get a good series of crises rolling.
The only thing they can do is establish precedent, normalize it and wait for a crisis that will spark mass conflict. If it doesn’t happen in the next 4 years they will have laid the groundwork for when it does. It also makes great content for the right wing media industry. All the podcasters, news, and TV shows get to talk about something and point towards some vague notion of progress towards defeating the enemy. They don’t have to create or enact policy, just show videos of them terrorizing the enemy.
The liberals in charge aren’t doing much to resist them, just letting them take whoever. The cops aren’t fed up enough to refuse orders.
It really is wild how this huge bloc of the GOP seems to have earnestly forgotten that they have a symbiotic relationship with the Democratic party, that they’re partners in a big game of bad cop/physical-manifestation-of-pure-evil-made-flesh cop and that the Democrats exist to launder all of the GOP’s monstrous evil into a form that the public will begrudgingly accept while couping and shutting down every left wing movement that gains popular momentum.
I think that’s the problem they’re running into. Much like the left, they want to think we’re closer to a revolutionary moment than we are. Nobody is taking the bait. Charlie Kirk wasn’t the beginning of the leftist uprising. They’re going into these cities only to be met by people holding signs and dancing. The liberals in charge aren’t doing much to resist them, just letting them take whoever. The cops aren’t fed up enough to refuse orders. They can’t seem to get a good series of crises rolling.
The only thing they can do is establish precedent, normalize it and wait for a crisis that will spark mass conflict. If it doesn’t happen in the next 4 years they will have laid the groundwork for when it does. It also makes great content for the right wing media industry. All the podcasters, news, and TV shows get to talk about something and point towards some vague notion of progress towards defeating the enemy. They don’t have to create or enact policy, just show videos of them terrorizing the enemy.
It really is wild how this huge bloc of the GOP seems to have earnestly forgotten that they have a symbiotic relationship with the Democratic party, that they’re partners in a big game of bad cop/physical-manifestation-of-pure-evil-made-flesh cop and that the Democrats exist to launder all of the GOP’s monstrous evil into a form that the public will begrudgingly accept while couping and shutting down every left wing movement that gains popular momentum.