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How is Donald Trump a fascist?
Let us count the ways.
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David Neiwert
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David Neiwert
@DavidNeiwert
Author, 'The Age of Insurrection: The Ongoing War on American Democracy,' in bookstores June 2023 (Melville House). Blogging at The Spyhop. I block shitheads.
- I have the grim sense that before this is all over there will be a mass shooting at a Disney theme park. That’s what these eliminationists are setting up here.
- 1) A thread about Sarah Palin, who in many ways was the key figure in the transformation of the Republican Party into the know-nothing, anti-science, conspiracy-theory-loving, cultishly authoritarian Party of Trump it is today. W/ video.
- The Boring Company was never a legitimate enterprise. Its entire purpose was to persuade states and municipalities to abandon mass transit initiatives by offering a tantalizing alternative that in fact would never work. Just another con by our red-pilled billionaire.You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
- You may not have noticed, but his supporters never accepted his defeat in a fair election already.Replying to @RobertKennedyJrIf Trump is kept out of office through judicial fiat rather than being defeated in a fair election, his supporters will never accept the result. This country will become ungovernable.
- Since the @nytimes’ Pamela Paul seems to be obsessed with “cancel culture,” can we have a discussion about how Pamela cancelled any reviews of books (including mine) examining far-right extremism during her tenure as book-review editor (2013-2019)?
- 1) For some reason, folks on the right have extremely short memories when it comes to acts of right-wing political violence. This is especially the case when they are in the middle of a propaganda campaign to make "the left" look violent. A long thread with lots of pix follows.
- Since @elonmusk and his redoubtable hired hands seem determined to obscure what happened on Jan. 6 and why Twitter executives were scrambling on Jan. 7, it seems essential to point out that Twitter in fact played a central role in Trump’s coup attempt: specifically, this tweet.
- 1) There’s been a lot of handwringing in the media pundit corps and centrist politicians these days about the loss of comity, post-Kavanaugh. And then Donald Trump made them all look absurd with his remarks at his rally last night. Thread follows.
- Time to tell Republicans that we will be happy to work with them in bipartisan fashion when they demonstrate a commitment to democracy. And that can only begin with a concerted effort by Republicans to endorse factual reality, such as Biden’s win, and reel their voters back in.
- Actually, the right didn't freak out because it didn't care. The Southern Baptist Convention had called for legalizing abortion in 1971. It wasn't until 1979, when the right realized it needed to find a new issue other than segregation to organize on. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
- Just one eensy-teensy problem with this, other than that it’s psychopathically fascistic: There IS no “Antifa organization” to designate thus. They’re not like ISIS or Proud Boys.The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
- Replying to @DavidNeiwert31) So, listen up, Chuck Todd, Evan McMullin, Susan Collins, and every other hand-wringing centrist wannabe: IT’S NOT BOTH SIDES. Only one side is trying to gin up a civil war in this country.
- Replying to @DavidNeiwert3) This is a remarkable moment in American politics: The President of the United States just declared an entire political party fundamentally illegitimate. And the media are treating it as just another of Trump’s crazy things.
