GOP Bullying the base in to donating monthly

 This is what GOP has become, high school bully in the Capitol.

GOP Threatens to Out Donors as “Defectors” to Trump If They Don’t Give Monthly

This is honestly way more insane than the title suggests. They are literally labelling people as "defectors" for not activating monthly donations. Imagine that. You're trying to give 50$ to the GOP and they hit you with "Oh that's cool, but unless you make that a MONTHLY donation, we'll have to tell daddy Trump you're a DEFECTOR and sided with the dems".

There's so many things to unpack:

• The GOP are totally OK using authoritarian language.
• The GOP have studied the data and decided that making their supporters fear the "wrath of Trump" is the best strategy going forward. This is worrying because that means this strategy is way more effective than we realize. We're joking about it being ridiculous and crazy, but they paid statisticians and marketers to study their demographic and this is their best plan.
• The implication is obviously that something bad would happen to "defectors" if Trump was to be elected in 2024 and you basically have to give monthly bribes donations to the GOP unless you want your name on some list or end up in a deathcamp or stripped of your right to vote.

This has to be illegal in some way? With the violence of language that has been used by Trump and the GOP in the last few years, they're practically insinuating that they will round up everyone who didn't give monthly donations and put them in some death camp once Trump gets elected. Not saying it would actually happen, but that's what they've been telling their supporters they want to do with democrats, and now they're telling them "unless you pay, you're our enemy from now on". And the paradox is that the more people that actually give money, the better chance they have of actually winning in 2024 and there is a good chance they enact even more voter restrictions and find new ways to prevent democrats and "undesirables" from voting.

We really live in a world where people in middle America are living a step above poverty while giving half their discretionary income to some megachurch so the pastor can fly on a private jet when he travels, and half to the GOP so Trump can keep his gold toilet.

I'm amused at the notion of telling people you'll rat them out, but only if they actually pay up first.

If the person chooses not to pay, their info doesn't go to Trump, and he doesn't find out they're "traitors" or whatever.

But of course that'd require critical thinking skills, so I fully expect that box will remain checked, and people will just donate less per month to continue to appease the Manchurian Mango.

Its all about projection. The conservative strategy is to get ahead of criticism by projecting exactly what they're doing onto their opponents with baseless accusations. Then when people say "wait you're doing that!" they claim that their opponents are pulling a "you too!"

The reason for all the Hunter Biden conspiracy nonsense was because Trump's own children were worse than all the accusations against Biden. Trump literally appointed his family to positions of influence in the government, which was what conservatives were claiming Biden was going to do.

The same thing happened in Germany... Germany in the 1920s was a democratic republic, but didn't have any built-in defense mechanism like the current FRG.

So the Nazi's could fairly openly show their disdain for democracy, and for many people that simply meant a return to the time of the Kaiser, return to a time when the German empire was a serious player on the world stage.

Little did they know they'd be getting a PTSD-addled mass murdering dictator who'd bring terror and ruin to the country.

Similarly, a lot of Republican voters just want a return to the glory days of the 50's, when (in their mind) everything was better, and they are willing to sacrifice democracy for it, because (in their mind) only the Republicans can bring back that golden era, so they have to rule.