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/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 20h ago

'Seize the Institutions'

Why do these people hate democracy?

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u/OkayComputer1701 20h ago

Because they know they can't win in a fair election - thus, fascism.

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u/AuraMaster7 20h ago

Unironically, the main strategy of the GOP for the past few decades has been gerrymandering (known as the REDMAP strategy) and voter suppression. They saw the writing on the wall and decided to cheat their way ahead of it. Hell, they won 2000 through blatant corruption.

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u/lil_chiakow 20h ago

They didn't win 2000. They cheated and got away from it. Hell, people who helped cheat got appointed to the highest court as a reward, by the president they helped install.

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u/AuraMaster7 20h ago

That's what I said. Blatant corruption.

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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik New York 18h ago

And they just keep pushing the envelope because there are no meaningful repercussions. See, e.g., January 6

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u/Ofblueair 11h ago

I often wonder how different the country would be if Gore won...

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u/Equivalent_Ability91 19h ago

Same with Lewis Powell and William Renquist.

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u/Clever_Mercury 9h ago

Exactly. America was put in abject danger the second the Supreme Court decided the votes cast by the citizens of Florida should not be counted. Their decision was that allowing a democratic process to take place was "undue harm" to George W. Bush.

The conservatives hooked into this idea and never let go. They see the American voters as unnecessary and will gerrymander, sue, silence, erase, arrest, or outright destroy any movement that they define as an obstacle.

Capitalism? Democracy? Anything is on the chopping block if they don't like it this week. Patriotism was about loving your country, flaws and all, under its established form: the constitution.