I do not think that it is impossible to defeat the Trumpists.
However, I do think that electoral administration in Redstate America is so corrupted as to render the GOP almost unassailable by conventional democratic means.
Fascists are counting the votes, fascists are running the polling booths, fascists are in charge of the voter rolls.
For there to be any chance of overcoming that structural disadvantage, it would depend on an absolutely unprecedented surge of turnout from the previously non-voting population. If Trump’s election had been followed by the Democratic party honestly and enthusiastically accepting the need for reform, there may have been a chance for that turnout surge to happen.
However, the party establishment did not do that: instead, they have devoted their energies primarily to defending their own power and position, by actively sabotaging any attempts at party reform or leftist organising.
So, because of those factors and others, I think that there is very little chance of the Dems gaining control of the House in 2018, and virtually no chance of the Dems gaining the Presidency in 2020.
I also think that waiting for 2020 is morally unacceptable, as it is very likely that Trump will have begun his war on Iran before then.
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None of which means that the situation is hopeless, none of which means that people should give up.
The fascists can be overthrown. But it is going to require sustained feet in the streets.
Like this:
