I'm repeating this.

Jason Terhorst

@petergleick @schwa The MAGA movement crucified Adam Kinsinger and Liz Cheney for going up against them, so I imagine that was effective at scaring any others from trying to resist them.

valOrie_p'O

@petergleick #TRUTHBOMB

LordOfQuails

@petergleick
They don't
They won't
They are complicit

All of them
Every single republican (plus some Dems)

Mensch, Marina

@petergleick could you provide a list with 6-7 names, which ones would be most likely to turn around?
I don't know much about US-Senators and House Representives. But I'd like to write letters to appeal to reason and humanity to those, who might just need a nudge from abroad and within. We all could try to talk reason. It might work, who knows?!

Red_Shirt_no2

@petergleick
At this point, I think one should assume this fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise is something they actually WANT.

Nu Modular

@petergleick Yes yes; an overextended duopoly, deeply entrenched by the fossil fuels industry, is that easily uprooted.

Industrial Age, all systems go. Fossil fuels #broligarchy, profit on!

SmutMagDotArt

@petergleick It's incredibly dumb of them. If Republicans actually want to ensure their hold on the government (which of course I don't want them to do, but if I were their strategist), they should come out against Trump as a guy who wants to take your guns, and oust him from office. It would humiliate Democrats and likely split the party. They should rally around a "good guy with a gun" and prove they are the law and order party who fights tyranny. They would win. But they're dumb.

FossThought

@petergleick I feel like it's not so much a lack of backbone. I think they think they will reap some benefits of this.

peachfront

@petergleick

sure it would but there is no decent GOP, much less a handful of GOPs, they've worked tirelessly for fascism since Ronald Reagan, over 40 years, they are not going to quit now with the goal in reach

peachfront

@energisch_ @petergleick

you can't seriously imagine that the party of white supremacy is open to reason

i've lived here all my life, they do not respond to reason or even self interest, their hate is everything to them

Mensch, Marina

@peachfront I can't imagine that every single one is like those MAGA thugs! @petergleick

Ivee

@petergleick I mean, yeah, quite literally, but they sadly won't :<

peachfront

@energisch_ @petergleick

some of them are more polite about it but they all hold the same beliefs

if it makes you feel better, by all means try to use sweet reason, but those who have been using sweet reason for the last century can tell from experience that it simply doesn't work on these people (for that matter, arguing from reason & logic works only on a minority of people even among decent people, most people act based on emotion -- emotion is the driver of human psychology)

Biomemetic

@petergleick
What if they have a backbone, and its just the will of the people itself that they are standing against?

Mensch, Marina

@peachfront Then let's write emotional letters! There must be a way to reach at least some of them. @petergleick

MidgePhoto

@petergleick either they really want it all, and feel safe with their rôle, or they are subject to sufficiently dire and potent threats.
Who are the threateners?

MidgePhoto

@petergleick so is the search for the six least corrupt, fearful, malevolent, republicans in office under way?
Dennis Skinner MP, the Beast of Bolsover, had a useful exchange in the Commons.

HTPC NZ

@petergleick yet so many democratic politicians still wants to roll over, negotiate and work with that lot...

Nini

@petergleick Which'd only get rid of the current fascists, it wouldn't take the fascists out of power altogether. You're looking for a much more fundamental stripping down here, this is the black mould in the framework.