It totally is! The heart of the Confederacy is the heart of MAGA. I truly believe their primary goal is to restore the Jim Crow era bargain of Southern autonomy for national peace. If they can expand their reach, bonus. If they can weaken the North and West, extra bonus.

No. Just introduce municipal statehood for cities more populous than Wyoming. Separate them from their economic and cultural heartbeat. Create blue enclaves everywhere and run up the score in the legislature and EC. Problem solved.

I like getting my hair cut. I would do it every couple weeks if I felt it was financially justifiable.

Well that just sounds like a bot to me, so I guess I am at a loss too…

They don’t show up in my feed, so I’m not sure? I know there are people still attracted by the technocratic appeal of government-as-grad-seminar, and mobilization is antithetical to that. Don’t know if that’s happening here, though.

I think they know it exists, but they don’t want “the left” mobilized, and their ideal base is so small, there’s no point in mobilizing it.

"The Republican party is an outright enemy of democratic interests around the world" is an objectively true statement and something that I don't know if the current crop of Dem pols are gonna be able to fully embrace

What is unclear to me is… why a trial? Why not have him “killed resisting arrest,” or sent to CECOT, or something else more manly and immediately satisfying? Every trial they have attempted thus far has failed— what itch are they trying to scratch?

Tl;dr not none of the stakeholders are that invested in electoral politics. They’ll exploit it while they have it, then move on.