Republicans Have Two Years To End Democracy (Good Luck With That, You Fucking Fascists)

This was not a red wave or a "mandate" for the GOP.

Democracy did not die in November of 2024 but the assholes have their knives out and it's up to us to keep them from their bloody work. Despair and surrender are what they want. Resistance is what they’ll get. Stay strong. We beat the fascists once and we’ll fucking do it again. 

This is not the narrative the press wants to tell but the Republican Party did not win last week. Trump won. JUST Trump. And that is a problem for the GOP. A very, very large problem.

The story the press wants to tell is that there has been a massive realignment of the electorate. That America lurched to the right. That the Democrats drove voters away with identity politics, specifically identity politics surrounding the trans community.

That’s absolute bullshit. I’m going to get into how the legacy press lied and manipulated the public to put Trump back into office on Friday, but today, I’m going to talk about how much the Republicans did NOT win this election and how little time they have to kill democracy before the electoral blowback begins.

First off, the votes are still being counted but as of right now, Trump won by 2% of the vote. Maybe. That’s it. That’s important because the press and the GOP are frantically masturbating over Trump’s “mandate.” Except…2% (MAYBE) is not a mandate. They certainly didn’t call Biden’s win a mandate in 2020 and he won by 5%. So let’s not fucking pretend Trump won some overwhelming victory here.

He did sweep the swing states, right? That must mean something, yeah? Funny thing, though…down-ballot Republicans got their asses kicked in those very same swing states.

• Arizona - Ruden Gallego crushed Kari Lake

• Michigan - Elissa Slotkin was supposed to be vulnerable and she won over Mike Rogers

• Nevada - Jacky Rosen beat Sam Brown

• Wisconsin - Tammy Baldwin was supposed to be vulnerable, too, and she beat Eric Hovde

If this had been a true red-wave election, all four of those seats would have been lost. Well, maybe not Arizona because Kari Lake is a garbage person and everyone hates her, even Republicans. The other three seats? Should have been easy pickups.

But Republicans definitely picked up a ton of House seats, right?

Ummmm…the fuck they did.

Current projections are that Republicans will continue to control the House with a majority of maybe 5 seats. Pretty much where they were before the election. What kind of fucking red wave election is that?! They literally did worse than in 2022!

There’s more:

All this jockeying comes amid the fact that while Trump is claiming a mandate from his election, in fact the vote was anything but a landslide. While votes are still being counted, Trump seems to have won by fewer than two percentage points in a cycle where incumbents across the globe lost. This appears to be the smallest popular vote margin for a winning candidate since Richard Nixon won in 1968.

While voters elected Trump, they also backed Democratic policies. In seven states, voters enshrined abortion rights in their constitutions. Two Republican-dominated states raised their minimum wage to $15 an hour; three enshrined mandated paid leave. In exit polls last week, sixty-five percent of voters said they want abortion to remain legal, and fifty-six percent said they want undocumented immigrants to have a chance to apply for legal status.

Democrats also flipped control of the Kentucky state supreme court. Will that make Kentucky a purple state? Hellllll no. But it will mitigate the damage Republicans can to do the women of the state going forward. And probably undo the gerrymandering. Womp-womp.

It was like this all over the country. Trump won but Republicans did, at best, meh. Political analysts have been thinking about eating a bullet since election day. Split ticket voting was supposed to be a thing of the past. We just don’t DO that anymore as a country. But I guess we do.

So what does that mean? That means, again, Trump “won” but the Republican Party and its policies did not. Or rather, millions of very stupid people chose to punish Joe Biden and, by extension Kamala Harris, by electing Trump but also chose not to punish the Democratic Party by electing Republicans.

If I were a Republican, this would concern me deeply. Trump will not be on the ballot in 2026. Well, he will be for angry Democrats out for revenge. He won’t be for Republicans and those millions of very stupid people looking to punish Biden and Harris, neither of whom will be on the ballot, either.

That means Republicans have two options over the next two years:

1. End democracy as quickly as possible to cement their hold on power -That is easier said than done. Countries like Russia and Hungary, the wet dream of Republicans and fascists all over the world, had extremely weak democracies that were easy to destroy. While ours is not bulletproof, obviously, it’s not made out of tissue paper, either. Two years will not be enough time.

2. Govern like adults and prove to the American public that they deserve to be BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Fuck me! I couldn’t even finish typing that out. Who am I kidding? Republicans are toddlers with the keys to the car. They can no more govern like adults than Donald Trump can stop dreaming of raping little girls.

Republicans are absolutely going to go for option 1. They have no choice because 10 seconds after they start implementing their Project 2025 agenda which includes massive tariffs, mass deportations and concentration camps, and another trillion-dollar tax cut for Elon Musk, the inflation that made so many Very Stupid People put Trump in power is going to come roaring back at rates we haven’t seen in our lives.

The Very Stupid People will be dumbfounded, naturally, because they are very stupid people. I, of course, will be pointing at them and laughing.

Overcoming Despair With Pure Spite

But the Very Stupid People will quickly turn into very angry people and, whoops!, no Democrats to blame this time! Republicans control everything!

And that’s BEFORE Trump starts using the IRS and FBI to attack his enemies while sending the US military to shoot unarmed protesters.

Yeah, have fun in those midterms, you fascist fucks.

Fun things to watch for before then:

• Special elections - Republicans will almost certainly continue to get slaughtered in these. They are (usually) a good bellwether for how a party is performing. Republicans have been losing since 2016 and that got worse after 2022. Again, Trump won last week. Republicans? Not so much.

• The 2025 off-year elections - New Jersey and Virginia have off-year elections. In 2021, Republican Glenn Youngkin ran on lies about CRT against a Democratic candidate no one really wanted and barely squeaked out a win. The press proclaimed it a backlash against Biden. Curiously, though, they ignored the reelection of Democrat Phil Murphy in New Jersey. Guess that didn’t count. Anyway! NJ has a habit of flipping back and forth between parties when governors reach their term limits. So if Jersey goes with a Democrat for a third term, that doesn’t bode well for the GOP down the road. Don’t expect the press to mention that, though.

• Wisconsin and Pennsylvania also have state supreme court justices up for election. Republicans will pour millions into these races, especially Wisconsin. Democrats flipping the Court there led to less gerrymandered maps and Republicans lost several seats in both the state senate and house. One more election like that and they could lose control of the legislature and THEN how will they rig elections there?! The same goes for Pennslyvania. Sure, Trump won there but Republicans…not so much. They need control of the court in those states to throw out as many ballots as possible in future elections! That’s how elections are supposed to be run!

Anyway, the next two years are going to be dark and ugly and terrible but Republicans always overreach and destroy everything they touch. They won’t be able to federalize elections and when they crash the economy, because they will, they’ll lose control of the House, and possibly the Senate (the 2026 map is not as hostile to Democrats as usual but still not great). After that, the House can get to work obstructing everything and loudly investigating Trump’s corruption and abuses of power.

So it’s a race now. Can Republicans end democracy or can we stop them in time for the midterm elections when we take back enough power to keep them in check for another two years leading up to the 2028 election? It’s going to be a slog but at least we know what we have to do and that Republicans are not an unstoppable force. All they have is Trump and he’s run his last election. Awwwwww…so sad.

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