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the best way to combat this is to replace existing leadership with leaders who are sympathetic to your goals and will lead the vacant minded masses to the agreed upon goal.

That's what neocons were until the Tea Party purged them.

The problem is that the Democrat leadership wants the old GOP back so they can get back to finally ending history. We can't tolerate either party in their present forms.

The power vacuum exists when the power is left sitting at the table. Presumably, in my utopic wish to disenfranchise fascists, we'd fix the guiderails that let us fly off into this canyon but I didn't get into that in the midst of my angry diatribe.

Yes he implies that with ambiguous language as a way of weaseling out of the legality of threatening violence.

Wait till you hear about the supreme court. They could just get one of their cultists to murder the 6 non-trump judges and fascists will control the entirety of the courts by appointing their replacements.

Edit: Actually, the courts are already 5-4/4-5 split most of the time in recwnt years, just muder 1 liberal judge and democracy is effectively over.

They are tied to the person, not party.

To add to what the others said; it depends on the state but typically in this situation it would be up to the governor to appoint a replacement. Whether or not that person has to be from the same party, serves the rest of the term or is just temporary, or if there needs to be a special election will also vary by state as well.

I imagine the party refills the seat

Political parties do not have direct granted power or authority in any state or federal position. They are not officially part of the election process. They organize and group candidates, and spend millions on advertising but they aren't directly granted any power. States will run primary elections to assist parties in selecting a candidate to proceed to the general election, but the process the party uses is ultimately up to them for determining the name they want to submit for the general election. Neither of the current two major parties existed when the US was founded, and originally there were several others. The actual general election process doesn't care about parties at all. Our system has inevitably devolved into the two party system we have now because of the Electoral College process.

In most States, replacing a State legislator is done via a Special Election, and stays vacant until then. A quick Google search seems to show that is the case for Minnesota. So if that district doesn't solidly vote D, it will be up for grabs. On this current political climate right now, I'm not sure that it would shift R.

On the federal level the State Governor would appoint someone to the Congress/Senate until the next election. Depending on the State laws, because States control their own election process, they may not be required by law to appoint someone from the same party.

In a deeply divided political climate like this, forcing both the legislature and Senate into a tie can effectively shutdown the government. Which is great for a party with a goal of trying to obstruct any progress.

has been since 2008.

A thing being illegal does not make it impossible.

I could say an enemy of the state cannot be elected (14th amendment), but here we are.

How come this one is a state crime, and Luigi is hemmed up in the feds?

https://xcancel.com/AlecLace/status/1933927424678302046#m