There's a sort of grim symmetry to the four years that Biden spent providing the illusion we still lived in a normal functioning democratic country, that if he just provided good government and adhered to norms the fever would break and people would vote for sanity and responsible choices.
Then sadly you would ignore the ugly underbelly of American history. Joe himself spoke about corn pop after George Floyd blatantly admitting he needed the votes of white men. The same men not giving a fuck about the health of women.
American white supremacy is literally eggshell white for how fragile it is. The silent rise of neonazism owes itself to the fact that after the southern strategy whiteness became universal.
Neonazis and Nordic pagans wanted a continued WASP hegemony only the foot soldiers were more often than not loud drunk boors who couldn't be entrusted with anything clandestine .
This is why some on the fringe turned toward kaczinsky and Orbán because both have redneck voter bases and both Poland and Hungary largely Lack gated communities so they meet their voters.
Project 2025 was like s godsend teaching the GOP how to reconnect in messaging with the soon to haves. This is why they go after Garcia. Also why their rage is selective.
They let the flag burning veteran go not because they suddenly went woke they let him go to keep up fash morale that the military is still a darling. Also why the full honors for Ashley babbitt.
There are likely hundreds of former east Germans who could probably tell you by heart their school was named after which martyr border guard and what the values of pioneers and the FDJ is.
And it should have worked. I wish to god it had.
The illusion was pretending that the political class should not be held accountable, that the voters will just intuitively know and respond appropriately with justice at the ballot box and ignore the massive psyops waged against us with our own money and data.
It was always just a stay of execution