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In reply to the discussion: Guys, I've got to say, I'm sort of terrified right now. [View all]AleksS
(1,685 posts)You say they don't have a mandate, but when has that ever stopped them?
I live in Wisconsin.
In 2010, Scott Walker won (with Reince Preibus at the reins), and the legislature and courts were GOP controlled. Now, even though the margins were slim (and legislaturally, I believe D's got more votes than R's--thanks Gerrymandering!), and there was nothing like a mandate, that didn't even slow them down. The presence of a couple moderate GOP-ers didn't slow them down either.
Within a month, the most extreme legislature WI had ever seen was blasted through the State government.
They don't care about "mandates." They care about power. Which they now have.
The first 100 days are going to be very very scary indeed. We saw what Preibus did in WI when his boys got to run the show. Now his boys own the country. God help us all.