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What the GQP wants is for red states to be as inhospitable as possible to the political left.  You know, like ISIS. 
Seriously. 
Jihadists are not looking to topple the west with a car bomb.  Their goal, in part, is to foment an anti-Muslim sentiment because they don’t want Muslim diaspora, they want Muslims as far away from Western culture as humanly possible.  They want their people to be as concentrated as possible so as to exert maximum political and social pressure. 
They want their brothers to come home.
For decades, the political right has done everything it can to make their numbers count more because they realize their party ceases to exist otherwise.  The conservative demographic is dying, quite literally.  Each new generation becomes less and less interested in their backwards asses but they’ve got a pretty big range of tricks to tip the scales away from democracy. 
Gerrymandering. Redistricting. Closing voting locations. Cutting off the USPS at the knees to slow mail voting.  VoterID.  These are the first volleys in an assault on democracy. 
What’s plan B if all the skullfuckery doesn’t result in a GQP caliphate?
Concentrate forces geographically.  It’s better to hold all of the power in half the country than it is to hold no power across the nation.  Concentration of forces itself is a force multiplier.  In the case of the GQP, it also results in more groupthink because the differing views were running out of town.
It may seem backwards for a party to seemingly go out of its way to alienate the moderates and enrage its opponents.  The political right’s plan for the next 20 years might be hidden in plain sight.

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.


David Frum
Has a date been set for the burning? >

Maybe he waits until Hitlers Bday >

Well it is just around the corner. I'm not a Nazi, I just know it's 4-20, because....weed >

If I were a teacher in this hellhole I would either move or find a new profession >

The system is sustained by martyrs. They guilt you into staying because someone has to for the children. >

Everyone decent needs to get out now. >

waste of time and resources. >

Not for the fascists. This is just another step on the road. Next comes the banning of "degenerate" literature, then comes the book burning. >

After that comes defining and outlawing degenerate behaviour as anything not conforming to their narrow definition, followed by purges of the so-called degenerates. >

Unfortunately they got to the starting stages of that part early. Just look at all the open, public violence against lgbtq+ people and events already happening. >

Because that's not terrifying or anything...