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   Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 21:47:29 JST Philip Cardella

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   But while we're thinking about #Trump and the #GOP let's talk about Red States and Blue States.

   We're very fixated on the White House and rightly so.

   But, fun fact, right now the GOP has the House Speaker by, what, three members?

   Ok.

   If the GOP map in Florida had been implemented guess what? There are three more Democrats in the House today and three fewer GOP.

   So who made the #Florida map?

   #DeSantis. In violation of TWO Florida laws.

   My point is STOP THINKING about Red and Blue States.

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     Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 21:47:30 JST Philip Cardella

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     #Trump isn't the threat. The neofascist GOP is the threat. Their nominee will either be a neofascist or willing to use neofascists to win. The nominee will either fully use #Project2025 or mostly use Project 2025.

     Is Trump a part of the threat? Of course he is. But Trump probably doesn't have a single idea in his head. It's the people around him, the people who will be around a President Haley who are going to execute this stuff.

     Trump is a threat because he's in the GOP.

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     Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 21:47:32 JST Philip Cardella

     Didn't #Trump talk about losing 15 pounds "the hard way"?

     When seniors lose 15 pounds the hard way and they don't exercise we usually consider that a potential medical crisis, do we not?

     Let's say Trump dies before the election and #Haley is the nominee. In that hypothetical what do you think would happen to turn out? A bunch of Trumpers will never vote for a woman so they don't show up. And a bunch of Biden voters stay home because Biden is "obviously" going to win. Right? Low turnout.

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     Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 21:47:32 JST Philip Cardella

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     Is that very far fetched? Stop saying you thought that'd happen in 2020. Trump is clearly less healthy now than then.

     So, low turnout. A young woman on the ballot. A war in Israel.

     Some #Biden people are going to stay home over the war. And some are going to vote for "something new" in the form of a woman who isn't an old white man.

     And the #GOP is actively cheating in several states--much more so than in 2020.

     And that's how a neofascist gets in the White House. And it's not #Trump.

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