Republicans long game.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

Want to destroy the establishment. They didn't impeach trump because they want to destroy the government. Trump is trying to destroy our government.

The pigs on the right want to put up another establishment that keeps the poor desperate sick but well enough to work to death for slave wages,they want to have a white Christian country where they are dynastic kings.
Exempted from moral laws that opress others. Where they are unaccountable for anything they say or do. Where the crimes they do are unchecked,where abuse of power is sanctioned as ok for certain individuals.

They truly hate the people of this country ,but see themselves as more than worthy of domination of the people of this nation . They want to be treated as divine kings, abusing humanity for profits and jollies.

Unchecked sociopathy is what's destroying this country and they think,finally there's enough dark triad voters and people who enable to make thier little tyrant kingdom happen.

1/3 of our nation are destructive dark triads and enablers of dark triads wanting a divine king that's like themselves. So they can get away with abuse. So they can bow down and give away thier responsibility. So they can feel better than the others.

Republicans chose trump because they thought he was the best tool to destroy the establishment. And so far trust in it's institutions,the news,everything has been twisted by Trump's lies so the people are confused.

What the republicans want is utter and complete destruction of our government,and they want control over us. So trump is thier pig to make it fall apart. All the lies,chaos,abandonment of help for struggling people,the rampant covid,the killer cops getting away with murder,the asshole groups like the proud boys, the undermining of our health care,over the top spending and cutting taxes for the rich, the religious bullshit,anti abortion all of it is to destroy the establishment.and to demoralize the people and incapacitate them and render them powerless..

We may have to go in and drag every republican out and depose them to stop them.

They have been planning to destroy the government for a century or longer. It's been a very long game,that they have wanted this since slavery ended. Or maybe before that. Step by step over generations they have eroded our country. Now they think they can make the country collapse.

And they will stop at nothing to make us suffer and fight among each other until the few left submit to thier new order.

[abqtommy]

1. It's way past time to take action. When the water's rising the best thing to do is load the family

into the bass boat and motor on to higher ground. There's nothing wrong with ratfucking the
ratfuckers and better that we take them down than vice versa.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Yes.

We have to be ready and prepared as much as we can be..

We have to be ready to help other Democrats and liberals. We have to not only stand up but to fight against the terrorists called republicans.

Those of us that love democracy might have to do what is unthinkable to save our country. Our establishment.

To undo the damage the right wing has done to our laws and countless other things.

[JHB]

3. I'll make it more succinct: They want a pre-20th century America

I grew up in a conservative household. Not a completely bonkers one (at the time), but Dad was a Bill Buckley fan and listener to the pre-Limbaugh, Bob Grant.

Some of the attitudes I remember from growing up:
The '60s protests are what happen when "you let just anyone go to university";
The glorious lost age of America was the Gilded age, when Great Fortunes were made, when the intercontinental railroads were built, when we became an industrial power (usually framed as "because government stayed out of the way" of industry, not that it aided and abetted it);
Woe betide anyone who refer to the great 19th century industrial magnates as "robber barons", because they got their noses out of joint over that. Those were Great Men, not to be gainsayed nor disparaged; etc.

The goals of the diehards of the Conservative Movement, the ones who have kept that agenda at the Republican forefront over decades, are to wipe out the last remnants of the New Deal and Great Society, to wipe out what's left of Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal and conservationism, to eliminate the income tax, to wipe out every program and policy developed over the course of the 20th century that helps ordinary people and shelters them, no matter how little, from being thrown to the wolves. Anything that recognizes a higher purpose than sending money skyward -- as much as possible, as fast as possible, as high as possible. They may have internal disputes over what point in the 19th century is their ideal, but they all want a Dickensian world. They have no qualms about a banana republic, as long as they're not the ones picking bananas.

With one exception: They like having a superpower military. They just want the peons to be the ones to pay for it.

These people set their sights on making the Republican Party into a conservative (as defined by them) party, and succeeded. Liberal/moderate Republicans, the so-called Rockefeller Republicans who accepted the broad outlines of the New Deal, were targeted for destruction. And during the late 70s and the 80s, that destruction was carried out. Any that weren't ousted were isolated, and replaced with "real" Republicans when they retired.

These are people whose ideology fits FDR's phrase of "economic royalists." They are believers in Divine Right. Not of kings (though they love a friendly autocrat), but in the Divine Right of Money. Anyone who impedes the unrestricted accumulation of wealth, who puts any priority over that, is against all that is Good and Right In This World and must be cleansed from the Earth.

Yeah, that's melodramatic and there are a whole lot of conservative foot soldiers who'll say "but that's not what I want", but it's what keeps driving zombie ideologies like supply side economics and the never-ending crusade to kill Social Security.

And their evangelical allies are on board too. They liked the days where they could use the law to enforce their religious doctrines.