Your analysis is more thorough than mine—using responses to polled questions is a better proxy than just plain votes.
I don’t think there’s much likelihood of an outright ‘seizing power’ by the fash minority. Rather, it’ll be a slow squeeze, like what’s already happening as you identify.
Next time the Republicans get in, it’ll have a few more nutters pushing a stolen election narrative. We’ll get a few more ‘safety checks’. Maybe one day there will be an election effectively decided by the Supreme Court (but that itself boggles belief a little—it’s hard to imagine the Supreme Court interfering with the electoral process to award the election).
Do you think they'd allow the Democrats to win the White House plus the House and Senate again, without attemping another 1/6, and do you think the Dems would just roll over and let them have it?
Your analysis is more thorough than mine—using responses to polled questions is a better proxy than just plain votes.
I don’t think there’s much likelihood of an outright ‘seizing power’ by the fash minority. Rather, it’ll be a slow squeeze, like what’s already happening as you identify.
Next time the Republicans get in, it’ll have a few more nutters pushing a stolen election narrative. We’ll get a few more ‘safety checks’. Maybe one day there will be an election effectively decided by the Supreme Court (but that itself boggles belief a little—it’s hard to imagine the Supreme Court interfering with the electoral process to award the election).
That would be more likely to happen if their grip started to slip.
Even then, they can usually get away with just making loud noises and having policy bend their way.
The Dems would really rather not have that fight if they can avoid it.
Do you think they'd allow the Democrats to win the White House plus the House and Senate again, without attemping another 1/6, and do you think the Dems would just roll over and let them have it?