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In reply to the discussion: Biden tells civil rights leaders that 'defund police' was 'how they beat the living hell out of us' [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And of course the groups and media agents on the left who insisted on pushing that term knew it was harmful. That's WHY they did it.
This is not the first or the 50th time the anti-Democratic left have doubled-teamed tactics with the Republicans to sabotage Democrats in elections.
To have a revolution, you have to have a lot of really unhappy, scared and angry people. Good times would consign groups like Nina Turner's to at least another 30 years of dreaming in obscurity, perhaps a lot more. This is their first big chance since Democrats took over in the 1930s-40s and created our longest, most prosperous era so far.
They imagine. But an almost certain RW authoritarian takeover instead would still be far preferable to the restoration of prosperity and security under liberal democracy that they very rightly fear.