"This election is about JD Vance."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"There is a reason the term 'fascist' is in such wide circulation as Mr. Trump amps up a campaign increasingly built around nativism, racial resentment, fear and threats, Ms. [Ruth] Ben-Ghiat said.
'It’s a measure of the urgency and sense of emergency that Hillary Clinton and Mark Milley are using this word,' she said. 'It packs a punch.'”
~ J. Weisman
#Trump #JDVance #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/10Gift link from Ruth Ben-Ghiat at her Lucid blog on Substack.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jason Stanley speak with Ali Velshi about how "Trump's campaign rhetoric has become so extreme that analysts and historians are openly comparing him to Hitler and Mussolini. And yet the American public seems to treat him with the same semi-seriousness that has characterized his entire political career."
#Trump #JDVance #fascism #immigrants
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'Why aren't people more alarmed?': As Trump becomes more extreme, Americans get used to it
Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric has become so extreme that analysts and historians are openly comparing him to Hitler and Mussolini. And yet the American public seems to treat him with the same semi-seriousness that has characterized his entire political career. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University history professor, and Jason Stanley, Yale University philosophy professor, discuss with Ali Velshi. Watch more Alex Wagner Tonight clips on YouTube at MSNBC.com/Alex
MSNBC.com (www.msnbc.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Noting that Trump's niece Mary Trump is warning us that Trump's mental decline is steep and dangerous for all of us if he's elected, Dean Obeidallah writes:
"Corporate media covered President Biden’s potential cognitive issues non-stop—but when it comes to Trump they are giving him a pass. We know that’s not happenstance, but rather a decision made by corporate media executives—many of whom who are supporting Trump."
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Mastodon Migration VOTEDreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
Analysts and historians maybe, but the New York Times, from whom most corporate media take their cues has two young reporters to sanewash everything he does.
If you look at what Michael Bender and Michael Gold have written on Trump it is a remarkable cleansing of his bizarre, profane and erratic behavior. Only when called out and shamed do they in any way report on the reality of Trump's insanity, and then only in euphemisms.
Michael C. Bender - The New York Times
Michael C. Bender is a Times political correspondent covering Donald J. Trump, the Make America Great Again movement and other federal and state elections.
(www.nytimes.com)
Michael Gold - The New York Times
Michael Gold is a political correspondent for The Times covering the campaigns of Donald J. Trump and other candidates in the 2024 presidential elections.
(www.nytimes.com)
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@wdlindsy I appreciate the analysis but I think it's remarkably naive to suggest the purpose of law enforcement was ever to make all people feel safe.
I live in a county that elected Joe Arpaio six times. The notion that law enforcement's primary purpose would be to terrorize brown people, with the enthusiastic support of a decisive portion of the electorate, isn't new to me. But seeing it on a national scale is.
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@Thad What about Snyder's comment indicates that he imagines law enforcement was every about making all of us feel safe? I don't read him to be saying that at all. I read him to be saying that we maintain — against much evidence, I think he'd say as an informed historian — that law enforcement exists to make all of us safe. And choosing conditions that target some of us while privileging others of us makes us all unsafe — as we've seen time and again in our history.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Mastodon Migration VOTED last edited by
@mastodonmigration You're exactly right about that.
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Choose Sanityreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s an exponential curve … the normalization began with Reagan and the change was slow for a long time. In 2016 it started a hockey stick increase. Now … ugh.
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@wdlindsy *2016*: "In other words, just like the overuse of historical analogies should not make us too quick to embrace them, a search for a perfect ideological replica of interwar Fascism should not blind us to its ugly re-emergence in 2016."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Choose Sanity last edited by
@CompassionNow Yes, that's an excellent observation, I thought, too.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Choose Sanity last edited by
@CompassionNow Well-stated. Excellent.
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AmbularDreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Among other things, too many of the people who personally remember Hitler and Mussolini and actually lived through the things they did are gone now. Living memory is a powerful protective force, until it's not.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Surprised that more isn't being said about Trump calling his own supporters lazy fat pigs that have to be chivvied off the couch to vote. (You'd think they'd be offended, but they applauded. #Weird )
But yeah. That quote from #HeatherCoxRichardson about Trump's increasing incapacity is dead on.
Trump is sundowning, and his handlers are trying to hide it.
#Trump #IsTrumpSenile? #Sundowning #Dementia #Meme #Memes #Quote #Quotes #Politics #USPol
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Trump has been grooming both his followers and the corporate media to accept his unacceptable behavior for years.
It's no surprised that the #media is letting Trump grab 'em by the pussy and not objecting. They've been groomed to accept it. And the media, in turn, grooms the public to accept it.
The #FourthEstate is failing America.
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abracadabra holmesreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy he must not know Jill Stein has her own direct line to Putin
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The Doctorreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy So, just like last time.
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That Girl Over Therereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy This is why I can't get my head around any Latinos supporting that guy.
#Republicans hate non-white people.
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@wdlindsy It's what happens when you cut funding to public education
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Snigdhareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy when your running partner is JD Vance, it's probably best not to mention couches.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Snigdha last edited by
@snigdha Touché. Cleverly noted.
