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Some of my CDA friends have shared this TikTok. Her question is fair. I work in the public sector and have been yelled at in worse ways than this during public meetings: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YnQsvo/
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US military fighting doctrine rests on the assumption that we will always outnumber the enemy 3:1. Liberals have operated on the same assumption for a long time, and it's not true anymore
The 3:1 doctrine has insulated the left. That buffer is gone
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Shame will not work. Outrage will not work. This is Dunkirk. This is fall back, regroup, and prepare for the blitz
We have to concentrate our energy on the things that matter most and leave the rest for later
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Two priorities stand out to me:
1) basic human rights. Protecting trans people is the first priority because we have to draw a line in the fucking sand here
If we become the kind of people who are willing to sacrifice others to survive, we've already lost
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Same with the rights of undocumented people. Due process and humane conditions. I want more roads to legal immigration. Basic human rights are more pressing and our limited resources should go there for now
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2) Communicating with MAGA
When life gets bad, and it is going to, we need to help them understand that they have been lied to and used. We need to open the door to dialogue, set aside bitterness, and invite them in
As always, this is not about finding allies. It's about gaining recruits
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If the idea of forgiving someone who voted for Trump sounds vile and also impossible, may I suggest finding religion and leaving divine judgment to God. Or find some other way to work through it, because we don't have time for that shit. We never did, and now we really don't
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The beginning of my personal shift from right to left was "wow, I've been lied to about Adghanistan. I wonder what else I've been lied to about"
One crack is all it takes
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We've lost more than an election here. We need to look that in the face, accept it, and change strategy
We can do this. The 3:1 doctrine has lost every war since WWII and it lost this battle too. Strategy change was overdue, and now it's time to start
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Substack version, slightly expanded:
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One of the more powerful takes I heard after Mangione was a Gen Z’er saying, “We’ve been raised w/politicians telling us that mass shootings at our schools are inevitable & we’ve got to live with that. But, now they want us to be horrified when gun violence targets a CEO?” It’s coming home to roost.
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Trump told Time that one of his first official acts will be to pardon most of the rioters accused or convicted of storming the Capitol to block the certification of Biden’s victory. “It’s going to start in the first hour. Maybe the first nine minutes.” 2/26
time.com/7200212/pers...
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He’s wavered a bit since, saying he’d “look if there’s some that really were out of control” and told NBC News he’d make exceptions “if somebody was radical, crazy.” “Those people have suffered long and hard. And there may be some exceptions to it. I have to look.” 3/26
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/p...
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But while the media will portray these pardons and the outrage they will provoke as merely Trump “owning the libs,” their real meaning will be much deeper, much darker, and far more worrisome. It will give the green light to the groups behind the assault. 4/26
www.dailykos.com/stories/2020...
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Of course, the street brawlers like the Proud Boys and the militiamen like the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters who attacked the heart of democracy that day are the tip of Trump’s spear. And they were built up gradually, during his tenure. 5/26
www.dailykos.com/stories/2022...
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My first encounter with the organized white-nationalist right in street protests occurred in Seattle the night of Trump’s inauguration: Jan. 20, 2017. The presence of Milo Yiannopoulos on the UWashington campus drew a massive protest that turned violent. 6/26
www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
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A man standing next to me (the one wearing the leather jacket) was shot and badly wounded by an alt-right Milo fan working with her husband; he survived, but only after months in the hospital. I was covering it for the Southern Poverty Law Center. 7/26
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I was a witness at the trial of the couple. It ended in a hung jury, led by a couple of MAGA jurors who refused to let the shooter (who essentially admitted she pulled the trigger) face conviction or jail time. The rest of the jury voted to convict her. 8/26
www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...
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A little over three months after the Seattle riot, I found myself in the middle of the Proud Boys’ first event: April 15, 2017, in Berkeley. It was in fact probably the most violent of the 20-plus far-right events I covered from January 2017 to June 2022. 9/26
www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...
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It was full to the gills with neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and militia radicals—terms I do not use loosely. Some of them turned up in Charlottesville a few months later. 10/26