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Elected officials take an oath to defend America agaist all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, and as our nation's largest security threat, HitlerPig clearly fit the description.
Biden should have ordered HitlerPig, and all his henchmen, arrested as a domestic terrorists and national security threats the moment he took office, and America would have cheered. At least the moral, decent, patriotic Americans, would have. The rest would holler, but MAGAs are cowards at heart, and most would quickly crawl back under the rock they were under before MAGA. The rest would be mostly violent White Supremacists, and other associated idiots, and could be easily dealt with like any other terrorists.
The MAGA Traitors should have been held in Gitmo with no access to the media until their many trials were resolved, not running for office, composing Project 2025, and spreading propaganda.
At the same time, any elected officials who amplified The Big Lie, and helped rile up the MAGA Mob to commit the Insurrection should have been investigated, and had their rights to hold elected office removed per the 14th Amendment/ Section 3.
Then MAGA should have been officially designated a Terrorist/ Hate Group, and prohibited. Any Sociopathic Oligarchs who were financing MAGA think tanks and candidates should have had their fortunes confiscated, and detained. You can keep your money if you are doing good works with it, but if you are financing a takeover of the world, you deserve a cell in Gitmo with the rest of the MAGA Terrorists.
All that would have demonstrated to the American people that the Democratic Party has strength, character, patriotism, and moral clarity. Instead, they chose to stick with their traditional role of being the weak, spineless weenie victims of Republican bullies.
No wonder frightened Americans are backing MAGA. They are frightened mice, looking for protection. They know the Dems won't protect them, so they hope that if they follow the MAGA rules, and allow the Nazis to operate freely, they'll be safer.
Biden and the Dems let us down by choosing the cowardly route of Appeasement With Evil, which ALWAYS ends in a much worse disaster.
First of all, the people did NOT choose this, the election was rigged, we all know it, and the Dems are just being their traditional spineless selves in not demanding accountability for it.
Secondly, reading comprehension in America is terrible. Not once have I advocated for locking people up for their political views. In fact, I have repeatedly said the opposite. I ONLY want them locked up for their civil CRIMES, which are many.
I never suggested locking up 30% of Americans for being MAGA, or for their politcal loyalties. I suggested designating MAGA the terrorist/ criminal/ hate group that it is, and prohibiting from existence. If your only violation has been voting MAGA in the past, you will be fine, but if you are actively committing crimes, and blaming them on MAGA, then you should be held accountable, as any criminal should be.
MAGA leadership are treasonous criminals, but street level MAGAs are just cowards, embracing bad people because they think they can hide behind their show of strength, and the Dems have traditionally been spineless weenies who dont engender confidence. If the Dems finally committed to being a party of strength, and actually proved it by defending America against this enormous criminal operation disguised as a political philosophy, many of that 30% of MAGAs would switch loyalty instantly. Cowards go where they feel safest, and Democratic fecklesness have driven the cowards into what they see as the safest option.
None of this is about politics, it is about law & order, and a massive, well-financed criminal enterprise is taking over America, the exact same way it happened in Russia, and in Germany.
Sure, they would have risen up, but at the time of Biden's inauguration, the most enthusiastically violent MAGAs, the worst of the worst, were being actively hunted by the FBI for their crimes on January 6. Most were hiding out, hoping that their family, their neighbors, their coworkers, etc. wouldn't turn them into the authorities. Some would be dumb enough to fight back, but most would do their beat to stay under the radar.
That leaves the rest, who were basically the B-Team. They didn't heed the call to Jan 6, so they had some sense of understanding of the consequences of such actions. They would have understood that HitlerPig and his henchmen were being detained for Jan 6 (we didn't know about the False Elctors or the Classified Documents theft yet), and while they wouldn't like it, they would know it's a legit charge. While they might scream a lot, most wouldn't take up arms. They are cowards, and their bark is always worse than their bite.
As for the rest, the more rabid MAGA animals, they could have been easily mopped up by the authorities. If the local cops won't help, the FBI or State can step in, deal with the criminals, and then sanction the local cops.
Sure, detaining the MAGA leadership for Sedition would have caused a huge outcry, and almost certainly some violence, but the violence that it will require to reverse them now that they are entrenched in our government will be far, far worse, and cause the deaths and suffering of many, many more.
Its definitely a cult of personality that will end with his death. HitlerPig Jr has as much chance at taking over for the Old Fart as Frank Sinatra Jr had for taking over for his father.
I've heard people say that his death would only make him a martyr, but I'm fine with that. I'd rather have a dead martyr than a live traitor.
We're going to be dealing with MAGA Traitors for a couple decades before we can fully purge them, so it might as well be with decent Americans in control.