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Among the reasons I get concerned about consolidation of power within Trump 2.0 while they decry the establishment as wasteful and corrupt, is Trump suggesting the use of the National Guard or military against some of the people who are running the country.

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Appeasing the far right, or being silent, will not satisfy the far right. It will encourage them. Many of their leaders are bullies who rely on fear. While it’s concerning that they have access to various forms of power right now, there is no safety in appeasement and silence.

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I agree with Sarah. We need Americans from across the political spectrum to publicly reject Trump/Vance/Musk. Divided polarization is not going to help. I welcome any Trump voters who decide this administration are not the patriots they claim to be.

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Among the many reasons why this is idiotic, is email isn’t 100% reliable for deliverability.

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Proud Boys got their start in 2017 by holding “free speech” rallies, where opposition to their dishonesty would be framed as opposition to free speech. Far right has used “free speech” as a way to get more toxic ideas into the discourse for awhile, while actually not believing in free speech.

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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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Donald Trump: I am your king Me: Well, I didn’t vote for you

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Trolling doesn’t necessarily mean someone is joking. The online far right has been using trolling to push ideas they believe into the mainstream for years. Trolling can be a way to get ideas into the discourse while generating outrage that they can mock while denying they are serious.

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In Project 2025, Russ Vought quotes James Madison saying, “accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, judiciary, in the same hands… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” He then argues the executive should “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will.”

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Principles First is a great organization. They have a conference in DC this weekend. Team Trump accusing Heath Mayo and Principles First of beings lying grifters who have no principles is hilarious. The performative BS from Trump’s PR team is so eye-rolling.

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Among the reasons I get concerned about consolidation of power within Trump 2.0 while they decry the establishment as wasteful and corrupt, is Trump suggesting the use of the National Guard or military against some of the people who are running the country.

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President's Day rallies

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There are lessons that can be learned from other movements, including rightwing ones.

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It’s notable that ALEC is thinking about Project 2025 for states. We can learn from groups like ALEC who have been pushing state policy structures for decades. There has been a lot of thinking by conservatives, the Christian Right, and the far right about change at the state and local levels.

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Two things are true: This type of weak sauce learned helplessness from Democrats is pathetic. Yet it’s true that the broad mobilization of civil society we desperately need in order to stop this authoritarian assault will create dangerous, volatile situations. That’s just where we are.

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This is actually the primary purpose of this post: it’s the green light for the insurrectionist crowd.

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Among the most commonly accepted and yet utterly baseless political theories out there is the idea that you can "satisfy" nativist urges by giving into some of their demands. How much history do you need to refute this?

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This is the thing about the American "postliberal" right: their entire frame of reference is the domestic culture war. Everything, even geopolitics, comes down to it in the end.

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When right-wing populists talk about parasites, they are talking about those above and below. When I saw Elon’s tweet, my first thought was that it was talking about other elites/government/NGOs moreso than poor people, but really, it’s both.

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Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.

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Individuals bear the costs of speaking out but don't capture the collective benefits for democracy. A classic externality - and one that could doom our system of government.

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Project 2025 wanted to use USAID, not dismantle it, so while the three main factions in the Trump administration agree on reducing the bureaucracy, they may differ on specifics. While that doesn’t mean they can’t work together, they aren’t a monolith.

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I keep thinking about how the Department of Government Efficiency is named after a meme coin that is hyper-inflationary.

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Trump’s account quoting Napoleon in this context goes against so many conservative critiques of the French revolution. But considering the far right isn’t Burkean conservative, and has instead long invoked patriotism and freedom against tyranny as justifications for authoritarianism, it fits.

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USAID has been paying for removal of Vietnam-era land mines in Cambodia. Trump's funding freeze has compromised those efforts. Almost immediately, China stepped in to aid Cambodia instead. Besides humanitarian costs here, how does any of this serve US interests? www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u...

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Here’s a Project 2025 Tracker website. It lists 291 of the objectives. As of this moment, 80 have been completed by the Trump administration. www.project2025.observer

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Hello! For those of you that remember me, I’m officially back after a long hiatus to share thoughts relating to my areas of expertise, which include critiquing Christian Nationalism and countering far-right narratives.

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