Gamers and Breakers

I just finished reading Timothy article in the New York Times, The American Abyss is a story of the Gamers and The Breakers. The Gamers and Breakers is the best way I have see someone talk about the factions within the Republican party. The Gamers want to game the system to their advantage, like voter suppression and gerrymandering. The Breakers, just want to break up the system and create a new one they can run, aka Fascism. Simple as that.

The Breakers started with Newt Gingrich and the Tea Party but the Democrats and the Gamers were too strong back then and not enough of the Republicans wanted to totally upset the system and so it festered over the many years with help from Facebook and Fox news and a dire economic situation. Then came trump and he was a perfect (but stupid) candidate to be a breaker. Large swaths of America want to break the system and they loved Trump’s message as an outsider that wanted to “drain the swamp”. They don’t see that the government represents their needs anymore (a fallacy they can’t comprehend, because what is the end state of breaking the system? Anarchy?) Thankfully Trump was too stupid and narcissistic to pull it off. His little revolution had zero chance of succeeding. When I watched the protests on live TV, I thought this is all they have? Doesn’t anyone remember how large the pink hat and BLM protests were? Imagine if 2 million people invaded DC. That would be a…