Professor Snyder:

[triron]

“The GOP aims not so much to win elections as to game them. This strategy has its temptations: The more you care about suppressing votes, the less you care about what voters want. And the less you care about what voters want, the closer you move to authoritarianism.” — Tim Snyder

[empedocles]

1. Power is addictive

[Blue Owl]

2. Picture Mitch McConnell's evil smile as you read this

[KY_EnviroGuy]

3. One of their main objectives is to destroy our public's confidence in government....

and they really believe that will lead to less reliance on government, thereby allowing them to further cut taxes and destroy more government functions.

Discredit, demean, damage, defund and destroy are steps of their process.


All to the benefit of the ultra-wealthy and corporations.......

[BlueNProud]

4. Their agenda is not popular hence all Culture Wars all of the time.

That's all they got. Unfortunately it works.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. The Mike Lee comment about democracy gave away the game.

Time to infiltrate the GOP. If gridlock is the goal, they got it, so maybe the GOP did rig the election to unload Trump but keep his base. We need spies among them.

*Edit to say I'm posting my thoughts out of desperation. Feel free to ignore.

[Cha]

6. Exactly... they don't give a shit.. &

they need to get some Heavy Pay Back Karma ASAP

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. It's virtually impossible to argue with those final two statements.

Seeing it in real time is worse than reading about it years, or even decades, after the fact.

[Snarkoleptic]

8. Snyder saw Trump coming a mile away.

His youtube channel is chilling and must see-
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmY71FGkk5kMwde_TP3KbnQ/videos

[triron]

9. Thanks. i'll have to check it out.