Obligatory not american lol

I think this opinion on lemmy is probably not unpopular, but I have been seeing people saying how republicans are dead as a political party, and more specifically the anti democratic/fascist element, believing that people have seen their mistakes.

This I strongly strongly disagree with. I think its wishful thinking, a thinking that we can return to “normal” politics. We absolutely cannot. The republican voter base, are not going to magically return to normal to rational politics (although knowing some history that has never been the case lmao)

I believe this is because:

  1. Trump will be blamed for incompetence. The idealogy itself will not face much critic from the Republicans.
  2. Trump is a symptom of things in our societies, and if those do not get addressed, simply a trump 2.0 will appear and very likely be more dangerous. I believe what is causing trumpist like politics is: break down of community bonds on all levels, hyper individualism, social media and economic inequality/exclusion. The socialist in me says the problem is “capitalism” buts its good to be specific.
  3. The only winning strategy for republicans is to basically play the authoritarian game but smarter. Choosing a leader who is more competent then trump, and who is more idealogically commited. In this sense, america was lucky that trump was so self interested and chaotic.
  4. Trust in politics has collapsed further under trump. Theres the worry of the growth fascists in america/the world, but another element is the growth of people no longer believing in politics and sort of taking a neutral position. Under these circumstances the 30% that are fascists take power, and the politically apathetic 60% will just shrug their shoulders and comment on how nothings changed. If democrats fail, this trust will fall further.

Im not sure if i am entirely right on my points, but I really want to discourage the belief that the democrats, without doing anything, will magically be in power for 50 years or something. In fact I believe the democrats will need to be generationally strong movement, and I think this will need strong socialist element.

I also want to discourage the belief that the republicans arent going to continue with their fascist politics.

One final point is that this line of thinking applies in every country when a particular instance of a fascist project fails.

Ok rant over

Edit: fixed a typo/missed words