Liberals believe very strongly that Donald Trump is a Nazi who poses an existential threat to their liberal democracy right up until the moment when you ask them about preparing to violently resist his Nazi regime in the event that he returns to power.
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Liberals believe very strongly that Donald Trump is a Nazi who poses an existential threat to their liberal democracy right up until the moment when you ask them about preparing to violently resist his Nazi regime in the event that he returns to power.
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If Kamala Harris isn’t preparing for the possibility of having to stage a coup against Trump, did she ever really believe he was an existential threat to all we hold dear?
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What an immense tension there must be between “Trump is a fascist who would turn the US into a Nazi regime” and “all that I can or must do to stop Trump is cast a single ballot one time.”
I don’t envy anyone caught in that contradiction.
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I’m not asking people to sign up to be insurgents starting on November 6. I’m asking people to confront and resolve the irreconcilable contradiction in the liberal positions that “Trump is a fascist who will seize power, rule as a dictator, establish concentration camps, and commit genocides domestically” but also “nothing fundamentally should change in my personal life or the US status quo in response to this threat.”
We end up applying conceptual band-aids—we can fight this threat by voting! we can resist nonviolently! it won’t be that bad! the violence will happen to other people who don’t look like me!—that we have to tear off. The status quo prevails in large part because we’ve trained ourselves to consent in advance, to imagine that nothing can ever fundamentally change, to prioritize decorum. In other words, we’ve been trained to be passive, even in the face of direct, obvious, existential threats, and I want people to *at the absolute very least* recognize and confront this dynamic, even if there is no easy or palatable solution to reconciling it.
