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"There will be a reversal of human rights, an erosion of safety for millions of people (and, sadly, including the nations we influence around the world), the rejection of basic principles of the law, and an increasing enslavement of democracy to oligarchs and billionaires.

That’s what Christian nationalists want. That’s Project 2025."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #chaos #WhiteChristianNationalists
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#fascism #trump #chaos #cruelty #whitechristiannationalists

"The decline in voter participation is what allows the Republicans to cosplay a mandate. If the elite political media plays along, that play-pretend becomes reality. Any story you read that uses the word mandate in any way except ironically is playing you for a fool…."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #disinformation #VoterApathy #media
/7

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62896778/presidential-election-2024-turnout/

Trump Only Gets to Pretend to Have a Mandate Because of Low Turnout

Trump only gets to pretend he got one of those because of voter turnout. 
Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)
#fascism #trump #media #disinformation #cruelty #voterapathy

"This election was about identity after all—an American identity which has become more tolerant of authoritarianism and less committed to democracy over the past decade. As Trump’s opponents try to figure out why they were defeated and how they can resist him over the next four years, they need to confront the dark reality about who we have become as a nation."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education #IdentityPolitics
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#fascism #trump #education #disinformation #authoritarianism #identitypolitics #cruelty

"Americans didn’t elect Trump because they were offended by the Democrats—they elected Trump because they like him. They know everything they need to know about Trump. He has been broadcasting his cruelty, hatred, and self-obsession into every American home for nearly a decade."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
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#fascism #trump #education #disinformation #authoritarianism #cruelty

"The old narratives about the Democrats’ contempt for the working class and their racially divisive politics don’t apply to this election. The argument that Americans are in so much economic pain that they had to vote for Trump doesn’t hold up: Unemployment is just over 4 percent, the stock market was hitting all-time highs before Trump won, and inflation has plummeted from a peak of over 9 percent to 2.4 percent."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
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#fascism #trump #education #disinformation #authoritarianism #cruelty

"A cultural and political chasm has opened up between Americans who still care about the integrity of their democracy and those who do not. We have entered an age of political nihilism in which our traditional conceptions of ideological and identitarian conflict must be abandoned. This election was about the identity of the United States as a whole, and it didn’t tell an inspiring story."

~ Matt Johnson

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
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#fascism #trump #education #disinformation #authoritarianism #cruelty

"And yet, we’re supposed to want to be their friends, want to hang around them, invite them to parties? We’re mean if we don’t want to date them and bring them around our friends so that they can insult and denigrate them, because who doesn’t love that?"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
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#fascism #trump #maga #family #cruelty

"to — again, because this deserves repeating — shout
'YOUR BODY, OUR CHOICE!' at women and girls'; to call Puerto Rico a pile of garbage; to denigrate women who don’t have children; to repeatedly claim that 'liberalism is a mental disorder'; to talk about how they voted for Trump to punish us; to regularly claim that Black people are lying about the existence of racism and police brutality, to force their religion on us, and so forth!"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
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#fascism #trump #maga #family #cruelty

"Just so we’re clear — the rule is that these people are allowed to despise us; to insult large groups of people on the regular; to demand that transgender people be pushed out of public society for their own comfort; to talk gleefully about how they can’t want to watch ICE agents pull grandmothers from their beds and deport them;"

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/these-people-voted-for-trump-because

These People Voted For Trump Because They Hate You, And You Monsters Won't Befriend Them?

What is the world coming to?
Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
#fascism #trump #maga #family #cruelty

"But what I am saying is that, if you have MAGA relatives or friends, you need to evaluate your relationship not just on the basis of the ugly choice they made in the past, but on the basis of what that ugly choice says about what they might do to you in the future."

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
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#fascism #trump #maga #family #cruelty

I just posted this valuable statement by Noah Berlatsky on Facebook, and Facebook immediately took down the posting:

"It may not be safe to remain friends with MAGA. Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them. …

I’m not saying everyone in every case has to cut their MAGA family out of their life. Different people are in different circumstances; you can’t make blanket rules."

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not-be-safe-to-remain-friends

It May Not Be Safe to Remain Friends With MAGA

Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)
#fascism #trump #maga #family #cruelty

"And more alarming: Asked for good ways to run a country, 42 percent of those 18 to 35 globally believe the answer is 'army rule' and 32 percent of that age group believe it’s 'leaders who do not bother with parliaments or elections.'”

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

"An average of 86 percent of the global respondents said it is important to them to live in a country that is democratically governed, yet only 80 percent of Americans did. That put America in the bottom five of thirty countries, below Turkey, China, India, Egypt and Mexico, to name just a few.

Just 57 percent of 18- to 35-year-olds said democracy is preferable to any other form of government; 71 percent of older respondents said the same."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

And a Jewish American voice, Steven Beschloss:

"Now we have more evidence that the appeal of authoritarianism is on the rise, in America as well as globally."

He cites a poll last year by Open Society Foundations polling 36,000 people in 30 countries, which finds commitment to democracy strong but waning globally.

Two key findings that bode ominously for the future of democracy in America:

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/11

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/what-i-wont-get-over-and-some-of

What I Won’t Get Over and (Some of) What to Do Now

As we grapple with where we are and the road ahead
Steven Beschloss (America, America)
#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

From Wajahat Ali, son of Pakistani immigrants:

"We knew exactly what we were getting. And despite everything he’s done, millions of Americans would rather have a cruel, aging vulgarian than a competent Black woman become President. This is more a revelation of their lack of character than anything else. They chose to vote for him. No one forced them to do it."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/america-shit-in-its-milk-but-the

America Shit In Its Milk, But The Rest Of Us Don't Have to Drink It

A small majority of Americans decided to destroy this country by re-electing a racist criminal. However, that doesn't mean the rest of us have to bend the knee or reach out and be conciliatory.
THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

And from Black historian Jemar Tisby:

"I find most of the postmortem pontificating about why Democrats lost the presidential election unpersuasive.

The reason, not the only one but a major one, Democrats lost the presidential election is disinformation and misinformation super-charged by billionaires and Russia through a network of right-wing media outlets and institutions."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-democrats-lost-the-2024-presidential

Why Democrats Lost

It wasn't the price of eggs.
Jemar Tisby, PhD (Footnotes by Jemar Tisby)
#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

"He will be president again because he, and perhaps he alone, saw us for how truly base, depraved, and uninformed we are as a country. Trump is not a root cause of our ills. He did not create the conditions that allowed him to rise. He is, and always has been, a mirror. He is how America sees itself."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

"America did this. America, through the process of a free and fair election, demanded this. America, as an idea, concept, and institution, wanted this. And America, as a collective, deserves to get what it wants. ...

Now that he is here, we deserve our fate, because the most fundamental truth about Trump’s reelection is that Trump was right about us."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

Another piece of eloquent testimony from a brilliant Black man that won't be taken seriously by lots of us as we engage in the futile game-playing of the circular firing squad:

"America deserves everything it is about to get. ...

The conversations about who is to blame, the hand-wringing about who showed up and who failed the moment are largely academic and pointless."

~ Elie Mystal

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-is-america-not-a-fluke/

There’s No Denying It Anymore: Trump Is Not a Fluke—He’s America | The Nation

The United States chose Donald Trump in all his ugliness and cruelty, and the country will get what it deserves.
The Nation
#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

"The fact is, is that they did everything that a campaign can do and more. But we as a country really have a lot of soul searching to do.”

But what Black people have to say isn't really important to a lot of us, right? Never has been. Never has been taken as seriously in the opinion pages of our major media outlets as the verbiage of any white person anywhere. Right? And it's never about racism or misogyny even when it's always about them.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

"The unfortunate reality is that this country is still steeped in racism, sexism and misogyny. I am personally proud of her, and I know that so many others are the same. We appreciate her tenacity, her focus, her decency and how she handled herself throughout this campaign. And I don’t want to hear anybody saying that they should have done something different, she should have been running longer."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

A large percentage of those gleefully playing this blame game right now, including here on my feed, are white men, young white men at that.

Here's the response of a young Black leader, Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott, to these folks:

"It is really on my heart this morning to say that as a man, but more importantly as a Black man, that this country does not deserve Black women or Black people, but specifically Black women."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it? And Black women in particular. That's what's going on right now, of course, in the orgy of recrimination mounted by those blaming Democrats, and a Black woman, Kamala Harris, for the triumph of fascism in the recent election. Blaming Democrats for the free choice of nearly half of our citizens to usher in fascism by electing Trump president….

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/democratic-state-leaders-prepare?

Democratic State Leaders Prepare The Resistance

From governors to AGs to mayors, loins are getting girded.
Marcie Jones (Wonkette)
#fascism #trump #future #cruelty

"Somebody will tell me many of those who voted for it didn't know what they were voting for, and I imagine that's true. I have to say, though, that the ignorance and complacency demonstrated by Republicans and their allies is an ignorance and a complacency so vast and unfeeling that it must be taken as interchangeable with malice. …

I'm disinterested in the usual circular firing squad."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #republicans #cruelty

"Everything they did was a shitshow and all of it was washed in threats of brutality and malicious lies and promises of retribution and revenge and destruction, none of it offered any solutions that didn't involve hurting lots of people, all its proponents went out of their way to disparage any fine aspiration or principal that anybody, including themselves, has ever claimed to hold. Their standard bearer is a criminal and a rapist. And he won."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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#fascism #trump #future #republicans #cruelty

"Fascism is, it turns out, very popular. It won on Tuesday, seemingly without even having to try. The side that won barely campaigned."

~ A.R. Moxon

But the problem, let's remind ourselves, is the Democratic party. The problem is not the voters who, told that one party will usher in fascism, went right ahead and voted for that party — choosing to usher in fascism.

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

Fighting In The Dark

Doing things fascists can't do. Not doing things fascists want us to do. Doing thing fascists don't want us to do. Refusing the fascist offer.
A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
#fascism #trump #future #republicans #cruelty

A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the National Archives, and is available for sharing online at Wikimedia Commons.

It CAN happen here. It HAS happened. And we refuse to learn from our barbarism in the past.

#fascism #cruelty #USA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland,_California._Kimiko_Kitagaki,_young_evacuee_guarding_the_family_baggage_prior_to_departure_._._._-_NARA_-_537890.jpg
A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II.
#fascism #usa #cruelty

You could turn away from the ritualized humiliation, or you could look at it straight on and say, “I would never let that happen to me.” …you could repeat this refrain with a fervency to mask your fear. You would know on a gut level that your story would never be viewed with sympathy… Sympathy was reserved for only the most virtuous victims—and even then, they always implied, it must have been the victim’s fault.
—Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight
#crime #cruelty
#crime #cruelty

“The Madison Square Garden rally, the increasingly unhinged speeches, the shocking vulgarity on full display—it was all there for everyone to see.

And, more than 50% of Americans saw it and said that’s exactly what they wanted.

I don’t have numbers yet, but I anticipate the white evangelical vote will be over 80%, white Catholic and mainline over 60%.”

~ Kristin Du Mez

#fascism #future #cruelty #Christians
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https://open.substack.com/pub/kristindumez/p/this-time-is-worse

This time is worse

Well friends, we’ve turned a page, but the next chapter isn’t what we’d hoped.
Kristin Du Mez (Du Mez CONNECTIONS)
#fascism #christians #future #cruelty

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