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Trump’s labor chief threatens to pull unemployment assistance from every state
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Which is exactly what's going to happen. Not enough people are willing to "Make MAGA Afraid", they'd rather make it into something silly. The far-right and alt-right are not afraid of us, and that empowers them. MAGA needs to be truly terrified, then we'll win the midterms and the next presidential election. If MAGA is not scared, we won't have another presidential election.
Don't believe me, continue to keep doing what you're doing.
Do you wanna fight? Then "Make MAGA Afraid".
It's really hard to really cheat in a Midterms. A presidential election comes down to one race in only seven states, it's fairly easy.
But there are too many Congressional districts, that are watched too closely by locals, to make it work. The best you can do is manipulate the election environment, and hope it causes enough chaos to benefit your side. But those strategies can often help the other side, too.
And no matter what you do, if you've just been raging shitheads for 2 years, you just piss off enough people that they overwhelm your cheating strategies, and win anyway.
So, interesting points. However, consider that just in the last few years:
The big problem with fucking with a midterm isn't ease, it's just scale. When you have cops, the federal and a lot of state and even local DOJs, the President's personal goon squad (which has now been significantly inflated and equipped), and the FBI willing to harass, intimidate, or arrest voters, steal ballots, and challenge every single race, everywhere, all the time, all backed by think tanks and funding orgs that are backed by some of the richest people in the entire world, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to stop up the gears of democratic elections.
Sure, your locals can challenge the results. They can make noise. But at the end of the day, "move fast and break things" works surprisingly well as a governance tactic if your desired end result is maintaining power, because by the time people have untangled the knots you've woven, you're already ten steps ahead and "well it'd be REALLY HARD AND EXPENSIVE to run a special election (if your locality even has a legal way to do that - most don't).