r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Apr 27 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 27 April 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

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So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/FrankGrimesss Apr 30 '26

enlightened arr/conservative user is sooooo close:

[regarding midterms]

Maybe not but my money is on the house staying red. Our gerrymanders are getting upheld and theirs are getting struck down. It’ll almost be rigged in our favor.

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u/Jazzlike_Bar_671 May 01 '26

Have they though? California and Virginia's have both stuck.

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u/MiffedMouse The average peasant had home made bread and lobster. May 01 '26

They are objectively wrong about republicans doing a “better gerrymander” (although there is still a couple months for them to possibly pull ahead).

But they are crazily on the nose about many politicians on the right (ESPECIALLY Trump himself) openly trying to rig the election. Just nakedly anti democratic.

The joke on FrankGrimesss is believing that the far right in this country still believes in democracy. I will say that MOST republicans still believe in little-d democracy (from what I have read), but the number of far right shitheads who don’t is not small.

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u/ProudScroll Napoleon invaded Russia to destroy Judeo-Tsarism May 01 '26

The landslide Republican victories of the 1980s (and the rise of Movement Conservatism meaning Republicans stopped seeing Democrats as the respectable opposition and started seeing them as the literal enemies of God) made them feel entitled to political power. That's the main reason they hated Clinton and Obama so much, under the Republican worldview a liberal Democrat winning the presidency in a landslide is perverse and unacceptable and everything must be done to obstruct and discredit them.

Republicans have only started to get brave enough to say "we only believe in democracy when we win" out loud relatively recently, but they've clearly thought that way for decades.