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Re:Trump Touts Prison in El Salvador for Tesla Attackers by cmurf on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:18PM (#43447537)
I think they're unhappy Trump isn't exclusively punishing their political enemies. The broad attack on government programs that help everybody is not what they wanted, they know it's going to hurt themselves.

Electing a mad man or dictator is not equivalent to 3/4 of the states ratifying an amendment to the Constitution. The Yarvin, Thiel, Musk view of using autogolpe to place a CEO-dictatorship in place of Constitutional order is in progress. But the People haven't consented to that. Proposing that they have does enormously heavy lifting for this patrimonial diarchy movement.

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Re:Trump Touts Prison in El Salvador for Tesla Attackers by jfengel on Saturday March 22, 2025 @03:35PM (#43448046)
It is my belief that when all is said and done, they'll be happy enough that the damage mostly fell on their opponents. That seems to be their top priority; they believe that they'll recover once the opposition is snuffed out.

But we'll see. Assuming there is an election next year, they'll have a chance to signal their disapproval. In many cases it will suffice for them to simply stay home.

My prediction is that they will vote to affirm this self coup. I would very much like to be proven wrong.

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