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The thing democrats dont realise is that republicans are going to have to go to prison if they want to save their system as it is, and that is not going to happen. They can tit for tat if they want but the republicans can and will just break the law and spit on the norms, and they will escalate to any level. They've already had the supreme court invalidate the constitution, they've already occupied a Democratic aligned city, they are already building the fucking camps.
If they want to save the norms they have to throw trump in jail, get half his cabinet too and a bunch of the supreme justices too. And since that can't happen this isn't salvageable. In 8 years there will be a new fascist goon in office and the democrats can't undo what trump did without doing as I said. Even if they win every single election in the midterms and boot trump out of office, the tools the next guy will use aren't destroyed and will just be picked up again. Even if the civil war doesnt come and the fascist project doesnt crumble, the new guy will just pick up where trump left off.
Agreed, tit for tat is by definition reactive, meaning that if there's escalation the Rs will always have the initiative. The Dems are paralyzed by design, not by accident or some kind of failure on their part, and the fascist escalation currently taking place is agnostic as to which party carries it out because it's about neutralizing anti-capitalist sentiment at home while turning labor aristocrats into proletarians to keep the profit accumulation machine turning.