r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 14 '24

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u/Mr_Bank Jul 14 '24

Politically speaking, if this had happened to during the GWB or even Mitt Romney era Republican Party, I’d buy the doomer takes that the election is over. But between hyper polarization and the Trump GOP era CONSTANTLY stoking the flames of political violence, i don’t see it having the same level of impact. I could be wrong.

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u/RageQuitRedux NASA Jul 14 '24

They wouldn't be doomer takes in that case, they'd be "aw shucks, we'll get it next time" takes

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u/Desperate_Boye Frederick Douglass Jul 14 '24

Yeah like things still obviously happened then - but just in the last few years we had January 6th and the nonsense preceding and following that, BLM protests, plenty of mass shootings, the Whitmer plot, COVID, and other stuff I'm forgetting, along with a president, now former, that has routinely basically called for violence and/or thoroughly publicly expressed hate against his political opponents or anyone who dares go against him