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It is not "one person" it is 75% of one half of the population.



Basically none of those people have any standing because they are nowhere near the actual operations of the election process.

Please don't pretend that their voices carry equal weight to those who have authority on the matter.


I don't think they're purporting that, but merely stating that's how many believe it. It's a significant problem, especially when it's meritless.


The two-party political dynamic depends upon hegemonizing more than 50% of the electorate by providing the least offensive political narrative and ideological pretext.

T's effectiveness has been through manipulating that ideological pretext beyond campaign politics and beyond the requirement of even narrative cohesion with reality. He wields his populism to coerce even the interests of power themselves, with little regard for the overall homeostasis of Republican party's ideological pretext[0].

If he continues his ideological schism off-the-rails from an oval room at Mar-A-Lago, he has the precisely the same leverage in 2022 elections which he is wielding today.

[0] see Loeffler's catch-22




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