"The irony of threatening violence in response to a plea for mercy perfectly encapsulates the nature of this ongoing coup: it’s not about conservative governance or even maintaining power — it’s about systematic destruction of democratic norms and institutions, laced with gleeful spite and hatred."
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Mike Masnick
I wrote a thing about how there appear to be at least a few of the folks who helped sanewash Trump/Muskism who are recognizing "wait, shit is going bad" and I know it's easy to demonize those people, but we may need more people like them to stop this. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/f...
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"The goal has devolved from governance to grievance, from policy to punishment."
This has only one ending. We know the history of this kind of movement. History is not rhyming but is, in fact, repeating. As tragedy and farce.