An interview with political scientist Julia Azari, who argues that new polls showing public backlash to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s authoritarian overreach give Democrats an opening
There are basically only two lines that this administration can cross after which it will be, to employ the vernacular, on.
Cancelling retirees’ social security and/or retirement benefits
Trying to take everyone’s guns
The major difference is that one those groups is preeminently equipped to make that process very difficult. I’ll bet you can guess which one it is.
The one thing that every paranoid loon agrees on – left or right – is that the US government actually attempting to blanket confiscate guns is the 100% unquestionable and unambiguous indicator of everything going absolutely sideways. This is why gun bans have always been incremental; those in politics absolutely know that the end result of trying to do it all at once is only a guarantee that a lot of people get shot.
Watching all the rednecks try to reconcile that it is in fact Trump’s gubmint that is comin’ to a’take their gunz is going to be quite the spectacle, I’m sure.
There are basically only two lines that this administration can cross after which it will be, to employ the vernacular, on.
The major difference is that one those groups is preeminently equipped to make that process very difficult. I’ll bet you can guess which one it is.
The one thing that every paranoid loon agrees on – left or right – is that the US government actually attempting to blanket confiscate guns is the 100% unquestionable and unambiguous indicator of everything going absolutely sideways. This is why gun bans have always been incremental; those in politics absolutely know that the end result of trying to do it all at once is only a guarantee that a lot of people get shot.
Watching all the rednecks try to reconcile that it is in fact Trump’s gubmint that is comin’ to a’take their gunz is going to be quite the spectacle, I’m sure.