"MEASLES, MISINFORMATION, a 'vigorous spanking' of misogyny—whether women like it or not—a violent nine-gun fantasy for political enemies, crudeness, petty insults, and cronyism.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"With two impeachments, thirty-four felony convictions, and four criminal indictments, Trump’s approval has grown, and he has new converts among the young and nonwhite, union members, and Jewish Americans.

He is well positioned to win. And he trusts that voters want him, and all his grievance and vengeance, corruption and lies—that they are not asking for a competent government that can respond to crises or solve problems."

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/3

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump’s power comes from us. Bit by bit, Americans have absorbed the Trump assault and adapted, as humans do. And nine years after he took our political system hostage, Trump now has faith that, for enough of us, his id is our id; that we can tolerate the spectacle and may even like it."

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/4

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"One way of thinking about the time since Donald Trump descended on a golden escalator into American political life is to conceptualize it as a spree. Trump has been gambling since 2015; he entered the GOP primary that year as a demagogic wildcard."

~ Josh Kovensky

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/5

Outlaws On The Verge Of Power

One way of thinking about the time since Donald Trump descended on a golden escalator into American political life is to conceptualize it as a spree.

TPM – Talking Points Memo (talkingpointsmemo.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"People laughed at first, and thought his immediate surge in the polls was a fluke, but they were wrong: his support stayed high, as he both reflected and shaped the party’s base by humiliating GOP leaders to establish dominance over them. ...

For Trump personally, the stakes in 2024 have never been higher. The risks he’s taken to get here have crossed so many legal boundaries (forget about ethical lines, come on) as to make this quite existential for him."

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny
/6

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"What we have been seeing within many Christian circles and the Republican Party isn’t classic conservatism at all. It is fascism."

~ Benjamin Cremer

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/7

https://benjamin-cremer.ck.page/posts/following-jesus-through-a-tumultuous-election

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

As Noah Berlatsky explains cogently this morning, "White supremacy creates fools." So many people are willing to swallow Trump, an obvious fool, because they have succeeded in fooling themselves already by swallowing great gobs of white supremacist ideology, which can control our thinking only if we believe lies and foolishness about race and superiority based on pigmentation.

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/8

White Supremacy Leads People to Swallow Ridiculous Bullshit

Such as Trump

(www.everythingishorrible.net)

[meltedcheese@c.im]

@wdlindsy This freaks me out. I don’t understand the MAGA mentality.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@meltedcheese I honestly don't think it's understandable, since it's based on irrationality, counter-factual beliefs, the repudiation of truth, science, facts, reality. It's a cultic stance that makes "sense," if that word can even be applied, only to other cultic believers.

[apples_and_pears@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy It's time to show his followers how weak and ineffective he is. Paint him as the paper tiger he is.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@apples_and_pears I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Blowing his mic stand is not even the thousandth most repugnant thing Trump has done, but it's notable given that his crowd is a well-scrubbed gang of mostly well-off white christian supremacists who have spent the last decade demanding the exclusion and persecution and death of (among others) trans people and other queer people."

~ A.R. Moxon

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/9

Apology Not Accepted

How to heal a hateful spirit that has gripped tens of millions of broken people? Reclaiming lost humanity by finding unacceptable things unacceptable.

The Reframe (www.the-reframe.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Every day has another dozen stories like it, clear evidence that the Trump cult known as the Republican Party cares for nothing except for its own supremacy, the domination of its whiteness and its maleness and the violent domination of a blasphemous religion they call 'christianity' and which I will not give the benefit of capitalization."

#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/10

[strangeculprits@c.im]

@wdlindsy Thank goodness for small wonders: yesterday's Iowa polls (Selzer and Des Moines Register) could be a sliver of daylight (hope even?) that white America --Iowa's population is about 84% white-- is *finally* turning its back on what Trump is peddling

[roundsparrow@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy "What we have been seeing within many Christian circles and the Republican Party isn’t classic conservatism at all. It is fascism." ~ Benjamin Cremer

Russia has won hearts and minds using #Surkov cracked monomyth since 2013. "God' in The Bible is fascist, a ruler of the cosmos who dictates to Moses in commandments.

Bible verse "1 John 4:20" corrects this problem. Loving living people is what is important, verse "1 John 4:20" calls people liars who say love Jesus while hating people

[blackburied@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy the “boll weevil” #Democrats (basically: southern #evangelicals that were anti- #lincoln as they were pro- #Confederacy ) shifted party affiliations around the time of #reagan and have since come to control the #republicans as #christofascist cultists. They need to be brought under control, be satisfied/complacent as a “silent majority” (as they used to refer to themselves) if there is to be a #GOP in the future. There needs to be a “Marshall plan” that reunites the country

[cgervasi@fosstodon.org]

@wdlindsy I wonder if the cause is the world, especially the US, is just amazingly prosperous that people cannot conceive of things going sideways. People feel free to indulge in violent political fantasies because they think prosperity and liberty are guaranteed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@cgervasi I suppose that could be the case. I'd also tend to point to the way right-wing networks have spread massive amounts of disinformation in recent years, especially about immigrants. Those networks have had great success in sowing fears among many people, inflaming hate, dividing people, driving them into the arms of authoritarian strongman figures.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@blackburied That's correct. White Southern Democrats, overwhelmingly white evangelicals made a mass exodus from the Democratic party after it supported Civil Rights registration in the 1950s and 1960s. Nixon and Reagan actively welcomed those voters and shamelessly used racist dog whistles. Now those voters have the upper hand in the Republican party and are driving it nationally, and the consequences are serious for the whole nation.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@RoundSparrow Thank you for those good notes on one of the sources for this infatuation of white US Christians with fascism.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@StrangeCulprits Yes, the Selzer poll, in particular, is getting a lot of notice today. Glad it and the Register concur, too. That strengthens both findings.