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They're complicit through willful ignorance. You can't beat the drum of fascism, parade Project 2025 around and rightly point out that it's a theofascist manifesto and blueprint, then run the campaign they ran. I wanted to vote for Kamala, and I had to pump myself up by the end. They took a gigantic wave of enthusiasm and pissed it away by playing it safe. That wasn't Prosector Harris going against felon, rapist, fraud Trump. That was Biden's shadow by the end, and they let Republicans tie her to Biden's actions as president.
They weren't trying to win; they thought, "Surely, Americans have sense and won't vote for that guy." Credulous fools.
To your other questions: would I be on Biden's side in a civil war? Probably, yes. But I'm not hoping for a civil war or for Biden to do anything authoritarian—what I want is for him and the rest of the Democrats, not just the handful of firebrands, to collectively represent our pain. If they can't say the quiet part out loud because of "decorum," then they are failures as leaders.
And that's why they lost. Fuck decorum. They haven't given anyone reason to hope in a long time. People voted for Biden, because they created their own hope by voting for not-Trump, but Biden himself didn't give the average person reason to hope, a reason to be excited for the future of the country (despite actually doing some good domestically).
Trump, on the other hand, gives his faithful reason to hope. He'll (allegedly) crush their nebulous enemies and punish those they feel are deserving. He'll restore some vague time when queer people "didn't exist," women didn't work, and there were only two legal genders. Christianity will be used to indoctrinate children in public schools, and every busybody with spare time will get to decide what books we're all allowed to read and which bathrooms we get to use. Like, he's gonna make good on at least some of that, all while plundering taxpayer money before their very eyes, and they'll let him, because he did the other things they wanted.
So yeah. I don't expect them to start a civil war, but they are complicit by regularly and frequently failing to treat the threat Trump poses seriously, and they are squandering yet another opportunity to build their base by mirroring the pain the rest of us are feeling.
ETA: and I can only assume that's because their privilege gives them the ability to not care that much.
Thank you for speaking to this. That hits the nail on the head. It speaks to the general callousness of the Democrats as they cling to norms.
The way Harris told us to keep fighting, look over there at the stars, and then fucked off on vacation. And the way Biden was all to happy to meet with Trump like he was any other president elect.
Maybe they think this is their way to prove Trump wrong, that our elections are free and fair. It's like they care more about meeting the bar Trump sets for them than they care about the American people. Maybe it's their privilege. I'm guessing they'll be singing a different tune when Trump has them in court.
This is the part that honestly scares me. SCOTUS gave him broad immunity, and with the jackals he keeps in his orbit, I don't doubt for a second he/they could contrive "creative" ways to punish anyone that speaks ill of him, resists his efforts, or otherwise tries to speak truth to power.
What about the scientists and teachers just trying to do their jobs? What about the environmental activists? What about the charities trying to help Haitians or Mexicans or Queer people? What about the legal orgs fighting to keep Christianity out of public schools? They don't have the money to fight the government, and all are potential targets if the right lobbyists convince him it would be more profitable if he were to make them "go away."