There likely won’t be a schism in the Republican Party. Romney might eventually give a tearful speech and declare himself an independent, but the Right is going to dive deep into the muck and eagerly and violently compete over who can swallow the most filth.
All economic and political incentive on the Right is on embracing anti-democratic fascism and slamming down the pedal. Even being ambivalent or lukewarmly supporting a blatant coup is enough to get thrown in the gulag. It’s going to be a horror show.
A lot of people have made a lot of assumptions that the GOP fever would break, that all this posing with semi-automatics and trafficking in conspiracy theories would slip away when the right person got elected. It was a fantasy. The Right is terminally lost in fascism.
To even begin understanding what’s happened with the Right is to reckon with the fact that Trump is a symptom of something much larger that has been festering for a long, long time.
To reckon with what the GOP is, what it actually IS, means a massive reconsideration of white, misogynistic supremacy and the violent means by which it has been enforced and perpetuated. The mask is off and it’s not going back on.
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