The modern Republican Party – now fully metastasized into the MAGA cult – has made its intentions known. They aren’t here to share power. They aren’t here to govern. They’re here to burn the system down, salt the earth, and erase anyone who stands in the way. And if you think that sounds extreme, remember: they are the ones saying it out loud. Every day. On stages. In Congress. From the Oval Office.
They talk about “getting rid of Democrats” like it’s a casual policy shift. They celebrate when protestors and congress people are shot. They cheer when schools ban books and punish teachers. They strip voters from rolls and brag about suppressing the youth vote. This isn’t politics. This is exterminationism wrapped in a flag. They’re not looking to win debates – they’re looking to erase opposition entirely.
Well, we’re not going anywhere. We’re the ones who built the safety nets. Who expanded the vote. Who fought for labor rights, civil rights, and bodily autonomy. They want to take credit for the country’s greatness while cutting out the very people who made that greatness possible. But this democracy isn’t theirs to monopolize – and we sure as hell won’t surrender it to a mob of fascist cosplay artists in red hats.
So if they want to make it a fight, let’s stop pretending we’re still playing the same game. They’ve spent years stacking the courts, rigging the maps, and poisoning the discourse. And every time we try to meet them with compromise, they meet us with contempt. Every olive branch is met with a torch. Every handshake with a sucker punch.
They say we’re the enemy. Fine. Then let’s act like it. Let’s treat them not as colleagues across the aisle, but as the greatest internal threat to democracy in modern American history. Because that’s what they are. This is not a difference of opinion – it’s a difference of intent. We want a future. They want control. We want liberty and justice. They want theocracy and rule by billionaires.
Our system has never been perfect. But it’s survived 250 years because people fought to improve it, not destroy it. And now, in the face of a party that openly calls for its opponents to be jailed, silenced, or exiled, we have to stop asking how to coexist – and start asking how to win. Decisively. Permanently.
Because when one side is screaming “get rid of them,” and the other side is still asking, “how do we reach across the aisle?” – you already know who’s losing.
– Brent Molnar
via Brent Molnar: Voice of Reason
July 30, 2025
via Brent Molnar: Voice of Reason
July 30, 2025
Related Off-site Links:
What Won't Democrats Fight? – Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark, July 30, 2025).
American Politics Are in Trouble – James Zogby (Common Dreams, July 28, 2025).
Trump’s Supreme Court Enablers Will Face History’s Verdict – Philip Allen Lacovara (The Bulwark, July 28, 2025).
“The Orban Playbook”: Trump Assault on Media Matters Seen as Dire Warning to Other Critics – Brad Reed (Common Dreams, July 25, 2025).
Trump’s Gravestones, Carved by Reality Denial – Steven Day (Common Dreams, July 24, 2025).
Democrats Are Preparing a Deliberately Incomplete 2024 Election Autopsy – Naomi LaChance (Rolling Stone, July 19, 2025).
“We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State”: Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump’s Authoritarianism – Democracy Now! (June 13, 2025).
See also the following chronologically-ordered Wild Reed posts:
• Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”
• Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”
• “This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”
• “An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup
• “To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”
• Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025
• Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• “This Is How Democracy Unravels”
• Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works
• James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”
• Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like”
• Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025
• “Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025
• “No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025
• Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025
• “This Is Fascism”
• The Declaration of Resistance
• The Choice Before Us
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
Image: Workers from Service Employees International Union protest the proposed Republican Medicaid cuts near the U.S. Capitol building on June 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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