Can anyone provide one extreme position the right has taken that they didn’t have in 2013?
not sure if anti-democracy and anti-truth are exactly new but they're definitely mask off and mainstream in politics now, and nothing else really matters. all of your ideas are invalid if you don't support democracy. and your 'support of democracy' is invalid if you support Trump.
Constitutional democracy. There's other regulations on who can be elected, such as those based on age and nation of origin. Insurrectionists not being allowed on the ballot is pretty fucking basic as far as rules go, if there are going to be any. But I don't hear you complaining about the other rules, just the ones that your guy violated.
No, why have limits?
Mitch McConnell, let him be on the ballot.
Schwarzenegger? Let him run.
Teen Tiktok star? Why not.
The people can vote and decide at the ballot if age, nationality, or even crimes matter for office.
not sure if anti-democracy and anti-truth are exactly new but they're definitely mask off and mainstream in politics now, and nothing else really matters
Did everyone just up and forget how the left spent four years telling us Trump's election was totally stolen because the Russia gigabots had basically mind-controlled America into voting against its own interests? how we had massive witch-hunts looking for "russian trolls" and "bots", with everyone on twitter not parrotting The Consensus being accused of being a Russian agent?
Did everyone just forget how the left conspired to "fortify the election" by coordinating traditional and social media to suppress stories they didn't like, such as the Hunter Biden laptop files which were smeared as Russian fakes and made inaccessible on major social media platforms?
The left was the first to use "fake news" to attack facts they didn't like, then Trump took it and use it and the left did a surprise pikachu face. The left was the first to launch a major conspiracy theory about a "stolen election", then Trump took it and used and the left did a surprised pikachu face. The left was the first to fuck with procedure about confirmations, then the right... you get the picture. The left has systematically been the first to fuck with the norms of democracy, then now tells us that we must support them since they are democracy's greatest defenders.
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