re: #434 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The party went along with his 2020 election claims and stood behind him after January 6th. They could have accepted the results of the election and distanced themselves from the insurrection but instead they embraced both the unfounded claims of fraud and the use of violence to attempt to derail the democratic process.

Let them pay for it.

Oh, you are quite right: but what I was referring to in #429 was the Republican Party’s embrace of Donald Trump in the first place in 2016-15. In which they didn’t (sadly for the party and more-so for the nation) have much of a choice. That, since then, the GOP as an organization didn’t ever step back from their support of Trump (and still hasn’t) has just compounded their problems. So fuck’em; it’s what they deserve.
But the fundamental problem is still there: something like 35-40% of the American populace seems to be peachy-keen OK with the idea of a fascistic, undemocratic government ruling a fascistic, undemocratic society - as long the “right” fascists are in charge. And that doesn’t seem likely to change in the near future.