Which is the entire calculus from Trump’s camp of how this might succeed. If the people with all the guns (cops, military, nutjobs) refuse to kill each other if push comes to shove, the nutjobs will win the day. Once it looks like they’re winning even a little bit, you could see a snowball effect of cops and military actively joining their side.
I hate to say it but I hope antifa and BLM are arming themselves to the teeth right now. They may be the last line of defense to fascism. If they can neutralize the nutjobs while the cops are laying down/taking sick days/vacations, maybe it stops the snowball effect from happening. But then again maybe it accelerates the snowball. Ugh.
This oversimplifies it. There are plenty of recent examples of excessive-force kills against white people in recent years. It’s that they’re maga specifically I think that caused the problem. The crowd had blue lives matter flags.
I said before, we need more Antifa, but it’s a tough fight. Last time I saw a left aligned person shoot a right aligned person the police tracked down and assassinated them.
I’d add that they were heavily outnumbered and outgunned as well. In other protests they all have riot gear and numbers. They were in real trouble if things got more violent
Sure - some cops are non-discriminatory psychopaths. That doesn’t change the fact that racism leads a majority of white cops to internally blow up one threat while downplaying the other.
Eh, its important to know history and precedent, but I really doubt say an upper middle class neighborhood in Portland would be treated like Fred Hampton.
watched a bit of chris wallace just now. mulvaney is such a fucking clown, although wallace did press him a bit. still complete trash coverage. just now attacked biden for dodging a question about impeachment, when it’s not really upto president-elect at all whether previous president is impeached. and now they are showing trmp’s banned video. jfc, they never stop peddling.
But the thing about this is, it’s not like it ends there. There obviously would have been further escalation from all sorts of actors if they tried to install Trump as a dictator. The military is the most important (and I will admit to being less certain they’d have come down the right way after this week, though I still think they would have) but a bunch of others as well.
I don’t know where things would have gone but it’s not like if Pence said that Trump won that would have been the end of it.
It depends upon whether you consider America to be a democracy rather than a corporatacracy that allows people to vote in elections where most races have only one or two viable candidates, and they are both vetted and approved based upon their willingness to protect private wealth and power. In this sense these corporations that are threatening to withhold funding from politicians aren’t doing so to preserve democracy, they are attempting to preserve their privileged position within a system that has already been corrupted.
IMO, the reasons why corporations are willing to play the role of “woke” corporation when it comes to race, are linked to their desire to distract from anti-worker policies that companies pursue individually and collectively. Jacobin hosted a conversation on why corporations embrace anti-racism. I found it insightful.
People who are aghast that the police were (wittingly or unwittingly) complicit in the MAGA riots are the same type of people who are aghast that Trump incited a violent insurrection/attempted coup.
Of course, we are correct to be aghast but neither one is a bit of a surprise.
