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Re:Yes, It's Fascism by Hikikomori on Monday January 26, 2026 @06:56AM (#46764575)
This is it. Trump doesn't really matter anymore, he will likely be dead by the next election. Why it doesn't matter is because its all project 2025 people now, they're using Trump to further their goals and those hove some overlap with Trumps wants. Their main goal is that there will be no transfer of power away from them again. Like the 2020 election they will try many different things, but will likely succeed as the party now is mostly loyalists, the entire white house cabinet as well, so does most of the government as a goal of project 2025 wasn't just RAGE, it was also to hire replacements. And now they have very well funded goons in training to deploy when needed.

Back in 2024 after reading project 2025 and about its authors and backers (federalist society, Thiel, Vance, other tech CEOs, Curtis Yarvin, etc) it was already clear that this was going to happen. I was already convinced that the only way out of this was a general strike and/or military coup, and it doesn't look any better now. I fear an Iran like crackdown is in the deck now.

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Re:Yes, It's Fascism by phpnode on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:03AM (#46764630)
They have to escalate further now. If the core selectorate stop now there's a chance they lose the next election and find themselves facing the music. They have to greatly expand the number of people who are complicit in this so the system as a whole is unable to turn back for fear of the personal, individual consequences.
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Re:Yes, It's Fascism by tim333 on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:22AM (#46765968)
I wouldn't rule out elections. They may try to cancel/rig them but in a place like the US that won't be easy.
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Re:Yes, It's Fascism by fc417fc802 on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:55PM (#46769928)
Yeah I assume no one will be stupid enough to try that because I don't think it would end well for anyone and I think everyone knows that. For anyone trying to gauge the general level of crazy here recall that there was a guy who landed a helicopter on the whitehouse lawn a few years ago.
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