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. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/first-cracks-appear-some-conservatives-admit-were-in-a-constitutional-crisis/
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I assume you’ve read The Broken Branch
I think this moment shows how fundamentally broken Congress has become. There were off-ramps from fascism for decades, but we barreled ahead.
You can’t have both.
It's still a free country.
For now.
For now.
Let them join the fight.
This is citizens versus authoritarian.
And everyone is going to have to pick a side.
They’re culpable Nazi enablers.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
- George Carlin
Where we went wrong afterward was in giving fully supportive and unrepentant Nazis positions of prominence.
Welcome to the team, no you're not the new leader. You just got here, and you demonstrated an absolute inability to even recognize this problem until it punched you in the face ten times.
Interesting that I am accidentally in agreement with Cole & Riedl.
But now El Salvador has volunteered to be an illegal black site for such evil.
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*the media enablers and politicians who supported this.
But that’s not the relevant question; the relevant question is whether having them onside could be useful in limiting the damage.
It’s an evolution of the Never-Trump problem before the election — Never-Trumpers were eloquent, but they swung no votes.
and i agree with you wholeheartedly! but how do we get social media users to, in general, think like good citizens and treat others humanely as the default?
Liberal values like equal rights and health care for all are impossible without a functioning constitutional republic. We're in crisis mode. We ally with anyone who will fight with us.