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Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books from The New Press and Mumblers Press. No longer on Substack; find me on Medium, WagingNonviolence.org, On Watch, and an oped near you.
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Do you think it elected Trump when the immediate aftermath of the slogan hitting popular consciousness was Trump losing?
Or was it people saying “no no we didn’t mean it, we can’t materially improve lives” that reelected Trump?
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They want to scare the shit out of everyone in time for Trump’s big military parade, so if you are scared (and that’s rational), make their lives miserable.
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Not enough personnel to do martial law
The secret of American law enforcement is that most people voluntarily follow most laws most of the time
If that changes for a significant %, things get overstretched very fast
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Timing it for Der Fuhrer's birthday, no doubt
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Insurrection Act a-coming?
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I got hacked out of FB that way
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I think the thing that people like Josh Barro, and Yglesias are advocating for are in direct opposition to the values of the Democratic party. If you want to be a 1980s Reagan Republican go for it. But it will a pretty small party of white heterodox doofuses
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Nothing Compares 2 U
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Nothing, apparently
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