I am sure there is a lot of cross traffic between here and thedonald.win, myself included, although I only lurk there. I've been lucking since before the 2016 election, before reddit even banned the original subreddit.
Since the election there has been a huge number of election fraud posts, and while some of them certainly seem to have merit, there are plenty that don't. As a consequence I see posts that call for "low energy pedes" to leave, or Republicans (that aren't Trump supporters) to leave, etc. I fear that the signal to noise ratio is too low, and it makes it too easy for the MSM to ignore.
I have my own theories about what happened with the election, why, and how, based on what I've read, that I hope are reasonable, but my title question is an important one. It also asks other things. Is the Trump movement growing or shrinking? Are reasonable voices being driven away who really want to sort the fact and fiction? Are we all deluding ourselves?
I'd be going to protests if I were in a place where there was some political dissent, but Trump won the state by 8 points so...
Instead I've been preaching Civil Disobedience against lockdown orders because that's more directly relevant to the normies around me, and is something they need to learn how to do. Not even just like fighting in the streets. Just realizing you don't have to obey what the sign says. You don't have to do the thing because you think someone might sanction you (even though it's not being enforced).
They've got to take these minor steps forward so that they start sticking up for, and encouraging one another, when they start having to do much harder things.
The normies accidentally revolted. When they voted for Trump, they revolted from the establishment, and the establishment took it very personally. Now they need to realize that they are at war, even if they didn't want to be in one.
I know. It scares the hell out of me, but there's nothing I can do to stop it. I served in Iraq. I know the level of extreme violence that civilians will engage in if pushed. God danmit I've been warning what would happen if the normies get pushed too hard.
As much as I hate the pinkos, I have to try and save them from the normies, because it's the only way to save the normies from themselves. They don't want to live the rest of their lives knowing that they were the bad guy, who did the terrible thing, that he's ashamed to tell his kids about, while thinking he was a hero for doing it. The last thing I want these fucking communists to do is manage to haunt the normies from within their own minds. They aren't worth it. They aren't worth anything at all.
As much as the Leftists would never believe me, and as much as the 'right' may condemn me. I'm one of the few people trying to save them from what I know is coming.
We've disagreed on some things in the past, but I agree with everything you said here. And I can respect a peacemaker who is so because he's had front row eats to horrors and violence that I'm sure I can't imagine.
I wasn't 'front row', but I was still in a place you'd consider the "splash zone".
The thing is that there's no way to get around the violence of a Civil War. The murals, memorials, and stories about lost friends just become everyday life. You just know to avoid places and things because you've learned what an ambush being set up looks like. It becomes part of everyone's life.
I tried to remind some of these college students I knew that in the Battle of Misrata during the Lybian Civil War, the reason Lybian tanks couldn't advance was primarily because the city had marshaled itself. There were tens of thousands of snipers. Anyone who had fired a gun slowly became an expert over hard months of fighting.
People aren't prepared to think that their plumber, banker, school teacher, garage mechanic, and waitress can become a sniper, a mortarman, a machine gunner, a demolitions expert, or TOW gunner. But it happens every time. The more the establishment pushes, the harder it all breaks down, and the worse the normies respond. It's just a common fact that you should always prefer being captured by conventional forces than partisan irregulars. The partisans are formerly normal people, or worse: opportunistic criminals and sociopaths. They're always more violent and uncontrolled. If you get captured by them, your primary objective won't be to escape, but survive the initial encounter.
That's what war does to people, and when someone says "I'll just keep using force and I'll get what I want!", there will be an angry response in the other direction. They just can't imagine it because they think they're "on the right side of history" or are "the good guys" while they keep attacking innocent people.
It's better to save the filthy communist than to let the normies... all of them... stoop to their level.