• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Probably nothing. Like the rank and file MAGA voters are all eight years older than they were in 2016. Most of their street fighting units were dismantled a long time ago. They were old dorks without any real taste for getting blood on their knuckles in the first place. Trumps original street fighting outfits got a lot of media play but I doubt if there were ever more than 10,000 of them in the whole country that actually had the capacity for direct violence.

    The strategic strengths of the MAGA fash (as opposed to BlueMaga) currently lies in their control of the courts, police, and media. They completely crushed police reform, the dems normalized the use of police and military against dissent, and the MAGA fash have control of all the institutions they need to unilaterally end abortion, healthcare, and to continue and possibly complete the genocide of trans people, plus whatever other goals they want. IANAL and I don’t entirely comprehend the limit of the SCOTUS, like what degree of legislating from the bench the Dems will tolerate without resistance, but with control of the SCOTUS the GOP can sorta/kinda rule by decree now. Whether they will and to what extent they will is an open question, but they’ve already overthrown critical legal precedent on things like Roe and some key labor laws.