This is from a report put out by the Transitional Integrity Project, a "bipartisan group of over 100 current and former senior government and campaign leaders, academics, journalists, polling experts and former federal and state government."
In actuality, the project is all Democrats or "Never Trump" Republicans, including:
- John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff
- Donna Brazile, former Democratic National Committee Acting Chair
- Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee
- Max Boot, journalist
- David Frum, journalist
This is not a joke. Liberal media has been covering this story and linking to this article [1] [2] [3] But they only mention the parts about Trump refusing to concede.
Right-wing media is talking about this angle, where Biden refuses to concede. Workers must have a full understanding of what is going on, so we can prepare & respond to the coming months.
I know some people here will be like, "oh that can't be right, aren't Democratic and Republicans on the same team." No, they are not. They both want to crush any working class power, but there are serious contradictions within the bourgeois class.
One faction of the bourgeoisie wanted to slowly contain China & Russia through building exclusionary trade agreements (TPP) and maintaining relationships with Europe. This would build towards world war at a slower pace. They see war with China & Russia right now as suicide for their class.
Another faction want to crush China & Russia immediately because they recognize the rate at which these two nations are building their productive base. They see a war later down the line as harder to win.
As the contradiction of capitalism heightens, and the American Empire fumbles under Trump, the former faction is under more and more pressure to act. Their "Russian collusion" plan and impeachment failed tremendously.
Now we are in a position where neither faction will recognize the election results, which will likely be the end of "liberal democracy" in the US.
After reading through this, this looks like complete hogwash. It basically goes "Biden loses, and suddenly the Democrats grow a spine they haven't ever shown any signs of having for the past 40 years and immediately demand western states secede from the union for reasons (despite not doing so in 2000 under similar circumstances)." If Biden wins the popular vote and Trump wins the electoral college, the DNC is going to shrug its shoulders, go "Oh darn, guess we'll get them next time. More campaign donations please!" and keep doing the same grift they've done for the past four years.
Yeah, I think the Democrats would continue to fight Trump with the same mad ferocity and the same narrow limits they have already. "He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named is a vicious democracy-usurping tyrant threatening to unwind the fabric of the democratic universe... and Twitter's CEO should really, really, consider banning him already."
And I also wish the man I've been calling a fascist dictator and a Russian asset every day for the past four years a speedy recovery
if Trump has a dominating win, yeah. but you're looking at the democratic party as something other than an organ of the bourgeoisie and treating the apparent weakness of their political coalition like it's materially real.
as always, this comes down to economic trends, and it's the same economic trends that have been driving this for 40 years except covid accelerated it all and dumped the worst consequences on us all at once. for the big bourgeoisie, they're happy and fine as long as they can profit, which means extracting wealth from the lower classes.
this crisis has left the working classes without much wealth left to suck up and left the already weak petit-bourgeoisie completely exposed. so one faction of the bourgeoisie is sucking that marrow out of the bone. but the rate of profit is virtually zero right now and we're at the point where major businesses are collapsing, energy has basically negative futures, etc.. so finance, the banks, major tech companies like Amazon and Google, they're all doing very well and instability is their biggest risk.
so if Trump wins in a convincing enough way that everyone can pretend it's all fine, it will be, at least as far as they're concerned. but a split outcome or a close Trump win is not stabilizing and things look poised to devolve fast and so they'll do what they're floating here and try to seize the state to apply their own stabilizing force. the organ by which they'll do this is the democratic party and that's what this report is talking about.
on the other hand, if it's a Biden victory - stability is bad when it allows your enemies to consolidate and you're in the weaker position. so the segment of the big bourgeoisie that are on the verge of losing their status and power have every incentive to fight that as hard as they can. it's less Trump good for the other side and more chaos is opportunity.
as usual in these games they've forgotten about the rest of us and they've bought their own bullshit about the strength/durability of their own coalitions (they'll collapse immediately after the collapse of the state) so they're taking a blind step off a cliff.
If you ignore the fact that the Democratic Party has conspired with their allies in the intelligence community to impeach Trump for his entire presidency.
The Democrats are not going to go after Trump on issues where they agree, private health care, military budget, etc. They will go after Trump on issues where they disagree. And they have, again, for his entire presidency.
The issue of handling the American Empire is driving a massive wedge in the ruling class. We are in the greatest crisis of capitalism since the Depression, and economic crises in the highest stage of capitalist lead to inter-imperialist wars.
Edit: Inter-imperialist collaboration can not exist when capitalism is in deep crisis. It inevitably devolves into inter-imperialist war within imperial cores as factions struggle to stay on top.
They've done jack shit. "Impeaching" him meant jack shit when they knew full well the Republican Senate wouldn't remove him. It's all performative. So yeah, maybe they'll do some performative bullshit for a month or so, but after Trump is re-inaugurated things will be exactly how they are now.
They have absolutely been trying to court Republicans to turn against Trump. That has been the political aims of this faction for the past four years.
They've been trying to court moderate Republicans to vote for Biden. No Republican in the Senate has been "courted" by Democrats. Every time they relied on someone like Susan Collins to help them, it didn't work. Democrats' moves are all performative. Like the other comment said, they've enabled Trump in multiple ways.
John McCain, Mitt Romney to start. I'm not going to go through the entire history of the past four years, since you seem dead-set on lying.
What important things did they side with Democrats on against their party? Not replacing a shitty healthcare bill with a slightly shittier healthcare bill?
What important things did they not side with Democrats on? Convicting Trump...
That is what I'm saying. They tried and failed. It's pretty clear the higher ups are communicating a change in strategy, which is what this entire thread is about lmao
They've literally enabled Trump in every conceivable way. The only disagreements have been performative for their bases, the ruling class is united in their fucking over of the working class.