I love how blunt and direct you are, Jim ,in describing what is happening. We need that. You cut through all the BS and get to the naked truth. I wish more people would /will read your work. All you can do is put it out into the world and we thank you for it. I will continue sharing it.
Phyllis Schlafly - jfc there’s a name you don’t hear too often - bc 🤮 But D0ug Wils0n is fucking insane & dangerous as anyone else associated with P2O25. I think the situation with the Texas state Democrats has officially hard launched us into civil war…
The view is strategic as the population will finally become what they still resist and think we’ll be saved from. The normalcy they see will be gone.
We won’t bite nails. We won’t breathe and keep going. We won’t get to take a break.
We get to take action which will be wildly determinant or we’ll go to bunkers most don’t have.
As a civil society they’ll see what happens when institutions fail, aren’t protected or prepared. Aren’t fought for.
Let shit fall where it may as the fallout will, in my humble opinion, for this administration be its last stand. It belongs to us and we’ll meet the moment when the ground beneath us is gone.
Flood the zone may be a strategic war plan but I’m more subtle…it burned fast, hot, and far too much for any sustained smoldering.
Well, if there's any silver lining in this nightmare, is that it has to get worse before it can HOPEFULLY get better...how ever long that will take.
For example, like getting Project 2025 over with now, as opposed to simply kicking the can down the road if Kamala was in the White House now.
We were going to get this GOP fascist nightmare regardless. It has been building towards this for 40 years, so as much as this whole this blows, I'd rather be addressing it now instead of these sociopaths having another 4-8 years to further cook up their dystopian Project 2029 or Project 33.
So, while nobody wants us to cease being a Constitutional Republic, we were going to lose our Democracy sooner or later. There was never a version of this hellscape where it would be 100% intact. So better for us to get here sooner rather than later, so we can get to work.
In a way, the speed at which these traitors have performed this coup may be beneficial, so far as it may run out of steam.
I mean, even with all the consolidation of power and horrors we have seen, this regime is falling apart in many ways, and Trump is shedding support, even amongst some of the MAGA base.
So I am hoping the forming cracks can be exploited opportunities for resistance...which is growing. Slow I know, but as Ruth Ben-Ghiat says often, and I'm paraphrasing, "no effective resistance movement has been built in eight months."
So, while times are super dire, we have to understand that it takes time. We have been so overwhelmed and shell-shocked by all this, especially the Democratic leadership, which has been expectedly flacid. Thankfully the rising stars have been leading the charge of late, especially in the Texas legislator.
So we have to be kind to ourselves to a point. This is unprecedented, not only in America, but of authoritarian take-overs. The Nazis aside, most of these coups generally take a while to get their shit together...Hungary, Turkey, etc. took a lot longer than our authoritarian drift...or slide.
However, it we can't fight back the gerrymandering war that's escalating and by a miracle actually have real mid-terms, then I don't know what our path forward will be.
Whatever our resistance ends up being, it's going to take millions of people waking up, and that probably will take some extremes...Martial Law, as mentioned in this piece, and/or individual suffering, most notably economic, in the coming months. Few things motivate like financial pain and hunger.
I refuse to ever give up hope that in the long run, however long it takes, we won't be able to turn the ship around...and not only defeat this regime, but also the Thiel/Musk/Yarvin/Vance Technate coup in the shadows, which is even more dangerous.
We have our work cut out for us that's for sure. But in that hopeful victorious scenario, where we have a 2nd pseudo-reconstruction to not only fix this mess, but to BUILD BACK BETTER than ever, to ensure nothing like this EVER happens again, we have to essentially squash the GOP as a viable party. They BLEW IT.
After what they've done, and continue to do, any semblance of decency and legitimacy is gone forever and the GOP must not be allowed to exist in its current form. They should go the way of the Whigs. They should go down in history as a cautionary tale. A wrong turn to be a teachable moment for all future generations.
And the MAGA branch can never get anywhere near government again. If the old school, normal Republicans of yester-year want to regain control and form a new SANE party, they have some serious work to do. And Musk's party sure isn't the answer either. Fuck him forever.
But to get us to a stage where we can essentially abolish the GOP, if it's even possible, I believe it has to get MUCH, MUCH worse on many fronts for enough people to abandon them for good. For a mass exodus to leave the party, we need a major political awakening amongst the most unreachable constituents.
People need to get shaken out of their decades-long Stockholm Syndrome relationship with the GOP...especially MAGA, which will be even harder. I suspect many of them are lost causes though. No matter how dystopian life gets for them in their Red states, they won't abandon their cult leader. And JD will NEVER captivate the base. Nobody can. Trump is a once-in-a-lifetime figure, and there isn't anyone on the Right who can capture Republicans like he did. At least I hope...
For us...
It will take one hell of a rebrand for the Democrats and a very powerful populist leader to captive the nation. We need an FDR-level movement to truly remake America into the nation we were promised by the Founders.
I fear it will take a generation at least to get us out if this nightmare. I believe it is possible. I just hope I see it in my lifetime.
I'm now 65 so have to instead look forward to the next lifetime (!), if Earth can still support a large population of us later this century. Now that global warming is accelerating with no checks that's doubtful.
I agree with this for sure. If Harris had won, it would have been four miserable years of GOP nonsense--and then same outcome. It's here and we must proceed from here. However, I don't think the most unreachable constituents can be persuaded to abandon MAGA. Not without professional deprogramming--and maybe not even then. They just must be kept from power. And right-wing propaganda shut down.
Great comment. Without downplaying the horrible situation we’re in you’ve made my outlook brighter. Thanks for reminding me that there are already many large groups of very motivated people coming together to protest this insanity.
This is a really interesting perspective I hadn’t really considered, but of course you’re right. The Reagan era ushered in a lot of these fringe perspectives and the merger of the evangelicals and the grotesquely rich put the plan in motion that culminated in blueprint form in Project 2025. This moment was going to happen sooner or later. I think the kakistocracy running the government will be the downfall eventually, if they don’t kill us first.
Exactly. Lincoln knew the civil war could not be avoided and acted accordingly. Even after the Union victory, legislative and constitutional efforts to resolve the issues were ineffective. The solutions were not found even with the civil rights acts of the 1960s, a full century after the war. As long as we allow money and power to be concentrated, tyrants will rise and democracy will falter. We now have the worst case: the world's largest, most powerful democratic nation has gone to the dark side. Our former principal enemy, Russia, is our anti-democratic co-conspirator. Our old oil-rich economic foe, Saudi Arabia, the great perpetrator of anti-democratic terror, is our closest economic partner in crime. Europe sides with Ukraine because they know what's coming. Our isolationist far right and our blindfolded far left don't realize that all of their children will fight the next big war, if the bombs don't obviate the war for them first.
You can almost hear the echoes of military boots marching in the streets. Trump and his right wing fanatics are eager to inundate major cities with troops, to show the public that dissent won't be tolerated. It's coming, and it's coming fast.
I think the implication of martial law will be expedited by the Pedophile in Chief, in a desperate attempt to take the Epstein cover up out of the spotlight.
The civil war in America never really ended. For years the racists worked behind the scenes cloaked in secrecy, but now they have slithered out from under their rocks, to bask in the sanctioned sunlight provided by the current Republican regime.
It will take a concentrated effort by citizens of all colours to defeat these tyrants, and end their sophisticated scheme to subject the American people to servitude. The end game of this corrupt cabal goes much deeper than the persecution of minorities. The billionaire puppet masters, like Karp and Thiel of Palantir, won't be content until the poor are subdued by fear or even death. The common desire to remove Trump's grifting ass from power is justified, but J.D. Vance will be worse, as he is fully owned by Thiel, the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. This malignant cancer threatening to destroy democracy, has metastasized to every government agency, under the blueprint of Project 2025.
The only cure is a complete purge of the perpetrators. The only force powerful enough to eradicate the disease threatening to negate the Constitution, is the collective will of the people. We can either defend liberty with all our hearts, or allow ourselves to be enslaved.
No words.....😱 Gut wrenching and sickening to watch the end of the America I grew up in. So sad, Jim, well written article this evening, and will reStack ASAP 🙏
I love how blunt and direct you are, Jim ,in describing what is happening. We need that. You cut through all the BS and get to the naked truth. I wish more people would /will read your work. All you can do is put it out into the world and we thank you for it. I will continue sharing it.
Jim, thank you. I’m depressed, but I want you to know how deeply grateful I am for your hard work, dedication, and caring.
Phyllis Schlafly - jfc there’s a name you don’t hear too often - bc 🤮 But D0ug Wils0n is fucking insane & dangerous as anyone else associated with P2O25. I think the situation with the Texas state Democrats has officially hard launched us into civil war…
The view is strategic as the population will finally become what they still resist and think we’ll be saved from. The normalcy they see will be gone.
We won’t bite nails. We won’t breathe and keep going. We won’t get to take a break.
We get to take action which will be wildly determinant or we’ll go to bunkers most don’t have.
As a civil society they’ll see what happens when institutions fail, aren’t protected or prepared. Aren’t fought for.
Let shit fall where it may as the fallout will, in my humble opinion, for this administration be its last stand. It belongs to us and we’ll meet the moment when the ground beneath us is gone.
Flood the zone may be a strategic war plan but I’m more subtle…it burned fast, hot, and far too much for any sustained smoldering.
Well, if there's any silver lining in this nightmare, is that it has to get worse before it can HOPEFULLY get better...how ever long that will take.
For example, like getting Project 2025 over with now, as opposed to simply kicking the can down the road if Kamala was in the White House now.
We were going to get this GOP fascist nightmare regardless. It has been building towards this for 40 years, so as much as this whole this blows, I'd rather be addressing it now instead of these sociopaths having another 4-8 years to further cook up their dystopian Project 2029 or Project 33.
So, while nobody wants us to cease being a Constitutional Republic, we were going to lose our Democracy sooner or later. There was never a version of this hellscape where it would be 100% intact. So better for us to get here sooner rather than later, so we can get to work.
In a way, the speed at which these traitors have performed this coup may be beneficial, so far as it may run out of steam.
I mean, even with all the consolidation of power and horrors we have seen, this regime is falling apart in many ways, and Trump is shedding support, even amongst some of the MAGA base.
So I am hoping the forming cracks can be exploited opportunities for resistance...which is growing. Slow I know, but as Ruth Ben-Ghiat says often, and I'm paraphrasing, "no effective resistance movement has been built in eight months."
So, while times are super dire, we have to understand that it takes time. We have been so overwhelmed and shell-shocked by all this, especially the Democratic leadership, which has been expectedly flacid. Thankfully the rising stars have been leading the charge of late, especially in the Texas legislator.
So we have to be kind to ourselves to a point. This is unprecedented, not only in America, but of authoritarian take-overs. The Nazis aside, most of these coups generally take a while to get their shit together...Hungary, Turkey, etc. took a lot longer than our authoritarian drift...or slide.
However, it we can't fight back the gerrymandering war that's escalating and by a miracle actually have real mid-terms, then I don't know what our path forward will be.
Whatever our resistance ends up being, it's going to take millions of people waking up, and that probably will take some extremes...Martial Law, as mentioned in this piece, and/or individual suffering, most notably economic, in the coming months. Few things motivate like financial pain and hunger.
I refuse to ever give up hope that in the long run, however long it takes, we won't be able to turn the ship around...and not only defeat this regime, but also the Thiel/Musk/Yarvin/Vance Technate coup in the shadows, which is even more dangerous.
We have our work cut out for us that's for sure. But in that hopeful victorious scenario, where we have a 2nd pseudo-reconstruction to not only fix this mess, but to BUILD BACK BETTER than ever, to ensure nothing like this EVER happens again, we have to essentially squash the GOP as a viable party. They BLEW IT.
After what they've done, and continue to do, any semblance of decency and legitimacy is gone forever and the GOP must not be allowed to exist in its current form. They should go the way of the Whigs. They should go down in history as a cautionary tale. A wrong turn to be a teachable moment for all future generations.
And the MAGA branch can never get anywhere near government again. If the old school, normal Republicans of yester-year want to regain control and form a new SANE party, they have some serious work to do. And Musk's party sure isn't the answer either. Fuck him forever.
But to get us to a stage where we can essentially abolish the GOP, if it's even possible, I believe it has to get MUCH, MUCH worse on many fronts for enough people to abandon them for good. For a mass exodus to leave the party, we need a major political awakening amongst the most unreachable constituents.
People need to get shaken out of their decades-long Stockholm Syndrome relationship with the GOP...especially MAGA, which will be even harder. I suspect many of them are lost causes though. No matter how dystopian life gets for them in their Red states, they won't abandon their cult leader. And JD will NEVER captivate the base. Nobody can. Trump is a once-in-a-lifetime figure, and there isn't anyone on the Right who can capture Republicans like he did. At least I hope...
For us...
It will take one hell of a rebrand for the Democrats and a very powerful populist leader to captive the nation. We need an FDR-level movement to truly remake America into the nation we were promised by the Founders.
I fear it will take a generation at least to get us out if this nightmare. I believe it is possible. I just hope I see it in my lifetime.
I'm now 65 so have to instead look forward to the next lifetime (!), if Earth can still support a large population of us later this century. Now that global warming is accelerating with no checks that's doubtful.
I agree with this for sure. If Harris had won, it would have been four miserable years of GOP nonsense--and then same outcome. It's here and we must proceed from here. However, I don't think the most unreachable constituents can be persuaded to abandon MAGA. Not without professional deprogramming--and maybe not even then. They just must be kept from power. And right-wing propaganda shut down.
Great comment. Without downplaying the horrible situation we’re in you’ve made my outlook brighter. Thanks for reminding me that there are already many large groups of very motivated people coming together to protest this insanity.
This is a really interesting perspective I hadn’t really considered, but of course you’re right. The Reagan era ushered in a lot of these fringe perspectives and the merger of the evangelicals and the grotesquely rich put the plan in motion that culminated in blueprint form in Project 2025. This moment was going to happen sooner or later. I think the kakistocracy running the government will be the downfall eventually, if they don’t kill us first.
Exactly. Lincoln knew the civil war could not be avoided and acted accordingly. Even after the Union victory, legislative and constitutional efforts to resolve the issues were ineffective. The solutions were not found even with the civil rights acts of the 1960s, a full century after the war. As long as we allow money and power to be concentrated, tyrants will rise and democracy will falter. We now have the worst case: the world's largest, most powerful democratic nation has gone to the dark side. Our former principal enemy, Russia, is our anti-democratic co-conspirator. Our old oil-rich economic foe, Saudi Arabia, the great perpetrator of anti-democratic terror, is our closest economic partner in crime. Europe sides with Ukraine because they know what's coming. Our isolationist far right and our blindfolded far left don't realize that all of their children will fight the next big war, if the bombs don't obviate the war for them first.
Well said!
So very well stated… I agree wholeheartedly.
You can almost hear the echoes of military boots marching in the streets. Trump and his right wing fanatics are eager to inundate major cities with troops, to show the public that dissent won't be tolerated. It's coming, and it's coming fast.
I think the implication of martial law will be expedited by the Pedophile in Chief, in a desperate attempt to take the Epstein cover up out of the spotlight.
The civil war in America never really ended. For years the racists worked behind the scenes cloaked in secrecy, but now they have slithered out from under their rocks, to bask in the sanctioned sunlight provided by the current Republican regime.
It will take a concentrated effort by citizens of all colours to defeat these tyrants, and end their sophisticated scheme to subject the American people to servitude. The end game of this corrupt cabal goes much deeper than the persecution of minorities. The billionaire puppet masters, like Karp and Thiel of Palantir, won't be content until the poor are subdued by fear or even death. The common desire to remove Trump's grifting ass from power is justified, but J.D. Vance will be worse, as he is fully owned by Thiel, the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. This malignant cancer threatening to destroy democracy, has metastasized to every government agency, under the blueprint of Project 2025.
The only cure is a complete purge of the perpetrators. The only force powerful enough to eradicate the disease threatening to negate the Constitution, is the collective will of the people. We can either defend liberty with all our hearts, or allow ourselves to be enslaved.
No words.....😱 Gut wrenching and sickening to watch the end of the America I grew up in. So sad, Jim, well written article this evening, and will reStack ASAP 🙏
Yes, it's a powerful summary of what we're up against.