A real opposition party, or a party philosophically opposed to what is being done can absolutely use Congress to slow down and gum up the works.
This is so far away from being remotely possible that I don't think it's worth discussing. The conditions that would give rise to such a party actually attaining power in this way are what we should be striving for, not to use bourgeois democracy against our enemies (which isn't possible).
The midterm outcome is at least something that Miller and the rest are concerned about.
The apparent recent ousting of Bovino lends credence to this, however I think it's mostly Trump's sixth sense for public relations ("optics"). The admin has been losing control of both the situation and the narrative and need to back off and regroup. I don't think elections are worth fixating on.
But if they weren't concerned they would just ignore it completely.
Agreed, but I think we are just viewing it differently. They're concerned not because of
but because operationally they've shit the bed and caused a bunch of people to radicalize in a short time.
What exactly could his opponents do that Trump wouldn't just ignore? I think it's a pretty lib take to think midterms have any valence to the long term strategy here. Democrats have shown their ass to be complicit so I'm not sure what your point is.
I agree that applying pressure and keeping everyone on the back foot has been effective, but that doesn't necessarily mean they need to go full accelerationist.
Agreed. I think whether it's capital behind the scenes pulling the reins a bit, Trump getting cold feet, or some other group of competent operators they will chill for a bit. Apply pressure then release ad infinitum. Again, not that fascism is going away, more so that in order to control the populace effectively you need to scare them but not so much they quickly develop class consciousness. Let them feel like there's a win, allow the radical energy to dissipate before accelerating anew. All the while the oligarchs consolidate power behind the scenes and project power to those areas of the Global South still vulnerable to our intervention.
If anybody reading this is staying in the US, take advantage of this time to continue agitating. It'll be harder because AmeriKKKans have the memories of goldfish nowadays and if ICE isn't plastered all over the news many will forget, but many will not. Good luck comrades.
Oh for sure, it's definitely an important bit of history to be aware of. The Great Satan has always used the rhetorical trick of "liberating" foreign countries to advocate for military intervention. It's baked into this country's DNA.
It's pretty clever of the empire ngl. They have no industrial capacity but are self aware enough to throw around their financial soft power while they still have it.
My guess it'll be futile just like the Intel deal but it at least buys them time to come up with an invasion plan for Canada
I ain't putting my life on the line to save this Satanic country. Besides, the way I see it the imperial core must collapse under its own contradictions if the rest of humanity has any hope of tackling the climate crisis. Hard to save the biosphere when the frothing Nazi on the other side of the world has a gun to everybody's head.