"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
/6

"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
/5

"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
/4

"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
/3

I think it's so important to be clear-eyed about what's going on right now. We're watching much of corporate media already acquiescing to a wannabe authoritarian even before he's taken office. I am watching the media very closely now and will only read/watch news outlets, reporters and commentators who do not cowardly give away their power freely in advance. #freepress #media #authoritarianism

America Votes Convicted Felon Into the White House

#ConvictedFelonPresident #Election2024 #Authoritarianism #KamalaHarrisDefeated #NakedlyAuthoritarian

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-defeats-kamala-harris-2024-presidential-election-1235154685/

"The Harris-Walz campaign has jump-started a pro-democracy movement of the kind we have long needed in America. ...

The Harris-Walz campaign has prioritized the values of joy, hope, freedom, solidarity, unity, care, patriotism, justice, and decency."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#KamalaHarris #democracy #authoritarianism
/3

https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-harris-walz-campaign-has-created

“Wannabe fascism is an incomplete version of fascism,” Finchelstein argues, “characteristic of those who seek to destroy democracy for short-term personal gain but are not fully committed to the fascist cause.”
#Fascism #election2024 #PoliSci #collapse #authoritarianism #Trumpism #populism #India #Russia #Brazil #Argentina #Indonesia #Israel
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/08/15/american-descent-wannabe-fascists-america-last/

#computers are inherently authoritatian:

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/blame-the-computer-pein

#technology #politics #economy #authoritarianism