Tilting the Playing Field | Trump and his allies seem to want to transform American politics into a system for producing Republican victory.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/tilting-playing-field/685035/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyRrLTAYJa4CajHyRH1QM8ss

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ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 30 pts · 278d

You don't say

Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf · 26 pts · 278d (2 replies)

They've almost finished doing that already. As soon as Biden was inaugurated all the red states immediately passed laws to limit mail-in voting, purged voter rolls and limited polling places in purple districts.

rayyy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d (1 reply)

The violent former MAGAs are getting fed up and are inclined to vote 2nd amendment style.

not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d

Don't care what they have inclined they supported this regime. They are nothing but traitors and bigots. Fuck them. I rather use my firearm on them as well.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 278d

cheating is the only way they can win.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 278d

Seem to?

bullshitter@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 278d

Already happened in India by Modiji

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 278d (2 replies)

Why not just focus on great policy and results?

silence7@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 278d

Because the Republican party operates as a patronage machine run by billionaires. The policies they want are ones which transfer money from your pocket into theirs. This is needless to say, not popular, so they stir up racism to divide people and distract from what they're doing.

MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 278d

Good policy is way less profitable

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 8 pts · 278d

You really have to watch this recent Steve Bannon interview to see how serious and blatant they are

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ijf7K_08YWk

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 278d (1 reply)

but there's no long-term plan. What do you do when the majority of the people you represent hate your policy? Well there's reckonings of increasing severity.

Voting is the condom that protects the powerful from the many. If you fuck everyone and raw dog the will of the masses you're going to get a Society Transmitted Infection

silence7@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 277d

The long term plan is to kill off the bulk of the US population using racism as an excuse

Mr. Trump said that if it was up to Mr. Miller there would be only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Mr. Miller,

SandraBollocks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d

Yeah no duh

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 278d

Amerikkka is fucked. Enjoy authoritarianism. Steven Miller will be the next president after Trump.