OH-Sen 2022: So you’re telling me there’s a chance

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A good read on the plot to turn the US into USSR and big money potentially flowing into cultural commentators who used to be leftists but are now conveniently fascists. As Vance states, the GOP will need to get “pretty wild,” which means nothing should be left to the imagination if you’re a student of history, fascists, and authoritarians: coups, genocide, etc.

“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

This is a description, essentially, of a coup.

“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

Any sane person should not be voting for these people. The cynic in me knows voting is not the way to stop these folks, as we have seen, since authoritarians by nature are unafraid to use force. The Justice Dept has failed us.

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A pollster friend of mine is currently running a rolling tracker (basically means a daily poll of ~200 respondents per day, with the most recent 3 days making up the traditional "full sample" done by pollsters to catch in-the-moment movement in fluid races) of the GOP primary for one of the main Democratic super PAC's and says that Vance and Mandel have plateaued at roughly 20-25% of the vote each, Dolan is increasing by about 1% per day, Gibbons crashing, Timken plateauing at about 10%, and undecided understandably dropping steadily as well. Appears that most undecided are opting for Dolan, though he claims "reason to believe" they will more likely break for Vance. Says the trajectory, if it holds, points to a Vance win with Dolan narrowly topping Mandel for second.

Dolan doing well would be nice. I’d vote for him if I were in Ohio. I wish my AZ GOP primary options, should I choose to vote there (and I probably will to stop Kari Lake, plus there are few contested D primary races for me), included a semi-reasonable option like him.

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Pragmatically speaking, we need as many non-sociopathic/Trump Republicans in Congress as possible to maintain a line of defense for 2024. If Dolan doesn’t follow Trump’s lead on overturning election results, I am all aboard. We know Vance and Mandel would do whatever he wants.

I’d advise any Ds or Is to vote for him (and DeWine), especially if there are few competitive D primary races in your local area. That’s why I’ll be requesting an R ballot here in AZ, while likely voting straight D in November.

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https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1578390683500544003

I like how they filmed it as if it were Modern Family.