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I don't see the problem as MAGA Republicans suddenly becoming popular on the "it's illegal not to like us" gambit. Bush Jr tried this in his second term - purging the White House press corps, leaning hard on conservative media for support, even prosecuting hostile journalists - and all he got out of it was Wikileaks and a robust anti-Bush media underground.
What we have to worry about is the Race To The Bottom
Trump doesn't have to be the most popular politician. He just has to be more popular than the opposition. And that's become downright trivial, given how the geriatric Dem Leadership has prostrated themselves before him.
You're largely spot on, but one thing I'd like to add is that Republicans in Walz's state have actually pushed forward a "Trump Derangement Syndrome" bill, which would classify openly speaking negatively about Trump as a mental illness that is valid justification for incarceration in a mental health facility, which is exactly what Russia did.
Which won't pass their state house, certainly won't pass their state senate, and Walz isn't going to sign.
The post-Soviet Russian state was the result of shock therapy more consistent with Musk's DOGE strategy than any kind of middling public censorship campaign. Rapid privatization of state assets for the benefit of sellout state actors and foreign investors/liquidators was what brought down the Russian government.
Putin's United Russia didn't come to power through petty proletariat censorship. It came to power when Putin and his allies mobilized what was left of the police state and used it to whip the newly minted billionaire oligarchy into an ideologically consistent nationalist project. We saw a similar transformation in China, in the immediate run up to the Xi Premiership. Both Xi and Putin had to wrestle power away from western-friendly kleptocrats intent on turning their states into the next Philippines or Honduras.
Slotkin, Newsom and Schumer are all ardent zionists.
Slotkin? Really? This woman is pretty despised among left leaning Michigan Dems. Complete turn coat.
She's got name recognition purely from the SotU rebuttal at the moment. I doubt she'd poll better than Schumer if she was allowed in front of a camera for too long.
https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/03/sen-elissa-slotkin-says-her-job-is-to-be-more-than-just-an-activist-against-trump.html
This was the article that made me lose faith in her.
Yeah, it's pretty bleak