The couple chatted about how Trump has paved the way for more competent authorities going forward, and what will happen to “hidden grievances” and other Trump supporters who still refuse to accept Biden winning the 2020 presidential election. Hidden grievances, explains Markos, are people who have no interest in topics or in building coalitions: “They are only interested in tearing things down.”
[These people] aren’t Republicans – they’re not even conservative … and [all of our systems] she failed. Donald Trump comes in and says I’m going to destroy everything – drain the swamps, destroy norms, destroy traditions. These people don’t care about politics, they care about destroying the world and bringing everyone else to their level. So it turned out that in Louisiana or Kentucky, as he did in 2019, Trump said “vote for this Republican” did not come out. They are not interested in building anything.
Voters are usually under-counted by pollsters and were not represented in large numbers in 2018. In addition, their turnout was further depressed by rhetoric related to the “stolen” elections. This makes it extremely difficult to organize and the GOP cannot rely on this group of people to consistently vote for its candidates. As Dean noted, this could make things very interesting in the Georgia runoff.
Markos also mentioned a major concern about the potential of a more competent leader coming after Trump using the same authoritarian game book – they could have a lot more success. With the amount of vitriol, hatred and anger that Trump has stirred up – especially among white supremacists and white nationalists – there is a very real danger of violence, he explained. As Markos said, “I worry about the next person who comes in and uses it more effectively and intelligently.”
In the upcoming Senate runoff election, Dean noted that these competitions could mean the difference between an empowered Biden government capable of making significant changes and a Biden government blocked at every turn by the Senate. However, Markos is hopeful about the organization that is taking place with black, Latino, Asian, and local-led groups in Georgia – and he sees a path to victory.
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