Imagine a murder trial and this happened.

[fightforfreedom]

There is a video of the murder taking place. The murder weapon was recovered and the fingerprints of the murderer were found on the weapon. There are multiple witnesses who testified.

The Republicans tell their voters the video is fake, the fingerprints are fake and the witnesses are liars. They tell their voters the trial is a political witch hunt. It's fake, they're trying to destroy your country. Their voters turn to violence.

During the trial the murderer announces he is running for president. The news media reports on all of it in a casual way.

Trump and Republicans have turned our country into a dystopian nightmare, something I did not believe was possible. I never could have imagined so many Americans would want to live this way, would fall for such obvious bullshit and madness.

I don't know how this is all going to end, most likely badly. This extremist, dystopian behavior is not sustainable in the long term. It will destroy itself. Hopefully the hearings and the investigations will be the beginning of the end of this nightmare we all have been living through. If not, it will end some other way and it will probably be un-imaginable.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. It ends when voters end it.

We need to energize our side and peel off an extra 3-4% of Independents and Republicans to win competitive races. 7% would be better.

[rubbersole]

3. 7% with all the ratfuckery....

If the Jan 6th revelations and the Roe decision doesn't wake up and energize people who don't/can't pay attention to national news/political events, and make them vote, then any sliver of hope that the dream of the "will of the people" is going to have vanished forever. I never dreamed things would be like this. History might look back and point to the fact that tfg being such a pos grifter alerted Americans to how little say the people really had.

[brooklynite]

2. Analogy fails

It doesn't matter if Republicans say the evidence is faked. It doesn't matter if the defendant announces he's running for President.

You chose to frame this as a trial. It only matters if a responsible jury has been selected by the Court and reviews the evidence fairly.

[fightforfreedom]

4. This is a trial in a way.

What I posted is happening, the analogy does not fail. Trump is on trial in a way, the evidence is overwhelming, the Republicans are saying it's all fake, and Trump is going to announce he is running for president. It's dystopian.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

5. "Dystopian nightmare"..

What else would we expect from people who think 1984 and Animal Farm and Mad Max and The Running Man and the like are instructional manuals and goals, instead of the dire warnings they were meant to be.

[ShepKat]

8. don't forget the movie -

Idiocracy - a perfect movie to show the mentality of the 'murderer's' cult followers

[IngridsLittleAngel]

9. Ahhh... Yes.. Idiocracy...

The only movie in history to be a comedy when it first came out, only to later become a documentary!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

16. The media report on the fascists...in a casual way...there's the big rub, the Big Lie will not die if

the mass media equates democracy with fascism.

Almost like mass media wants it that way? But that can not be can it?

[mountain grammy]

6. Agree

Unimaginable!

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Hell, it just happened re: Rittenhouse

At least the first part of your scenario. However, let's all do the only thing we can. WAIT AND SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT.
Better than this doomsday proposition.

[Dustlawyer]

10. It's the propaganda.

Until we stop it the insanity will continue.

[The Wizard]

11. Minority rule ends badly

.

[dupagelib]

13. Don't under estimate the power of racism.

The msm doesn't explain how susceptible most white people are to tropes and memes that suggest any threat to their economic privileged status is BS. So trumpism is a lottery ticket to maintain their status vis-a vis people of color. Hard to defeat greed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. I happen to think he IS a murderer. A House Committee concluded he

purposely withheld life saving PPE and did not warn of the deadliness of covid. Does that qualify?

Even scarier than that is the fact that if you equate the severity of those crimes to media life cycle, few cared. The story of the House findings died, no pun intended, in less than 24 hours

[PatrickforB]

15. Straight out of Robocop. n/t