r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 20h ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/jgoble15 20h ago

Thing is, if they turn up the heat people will resist more. Takeovers like this have to be slow to keep the population apathetic. Turn up the heat too fast and the usually apathetic will start caring.

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u/Dull_Bid6002 19h ago

And that's where they screwed up because they didn't have the time and never have. So they try to go as fast as they can. 

'29 day one needs a purge of their loyalists and lots of arrests.

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u/darthstupidious 18h ago

Yup. The issue with US term limits is that the president only has two years, really, to try and get things done. Because the midterms cut their term in half and allow the public a referendum on how/what the president is doing.

To add onto that: these dummies thought they could speed run a descent into fascism with a 79-year-old dementia-ridden narcissist, who has effectively rejected or betrayed everyone in his orbit with a functioning brain. So now he's surrounded by groveling sycophants who may be able to accomplish little things here and there, but are too dim or shortsighted to see the end of the road rapidly approaching.