I wrote about the Right’s defining political project: A blood-and-soil nationalism that is fundamentally incompatible with multiracial, pluralistic democracy. It has come to dominate the Republican Party, and the elevation of J.D. Vance captures this perfectly.
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Blood and Soil The Right is committed to preserving America as a white Christian homeland. They are determined to purge the nation and radically redraw the boundaries of the body politic. -
Blood and Soil The Right is committed to preserving America as a white Christian homeland. They are determined to purge the nation and radically redraw the boundaries of the body politic.Blood and Soil
The Right is committed to preserving America as a white Christian homeland. They are determined to purge the nation and radically redraw the boundaries of the body politic.Inciting a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio is part of that project.
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Trump is trying to incite a pogrom.Trump is trying to incite a pogrom.
Mere weeks before the election, he has about a 50:50 chance to get back to the White House.
As president, he could then use the racist frenzy he and Vance caused as justification for mobilizing the federal government to “cleanse” the nation.
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Ridiculous piece from National Review’s editor-in-chief Rich Lowry in the NYT yesterday: “Trump Can Win on Character.” Ok! I wrote about his utterly disingenuous anti-anti-Trumpism, and how it is paving the way for authoritarianism, a while back: 1/ ht...It’s very much par for the course for Lowry and the anti-anti-Trumpers at National Review. What they offer isn’t analysis. It is sophistry in defense of the premise that the actual threat isn’t Trump, it’s the Libs, and the Libs only. 3/
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Ridiculous piece from National Review’s editor-in-chief Rich Lowry in the NYT yesterday: “Trump Can Win on Character.” Ok! I wrote about his utterly disingenuous anti-anti-Trumpism, and how it is paving the way for authoritarianism, a while back: 1/ ht...What the NYT is choosing to platform – and thereby present to their readers as a position that deserves serious consideration - is propaganda: No discernible insight or analysis. Just openly, aggressively partisan slandering, complete with some proper factual disinformation. 2/
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Ridiculous piece from National Review’s editor-in-chief Rich Lowry in the NYT yesterday: “Trump Can Win on Character.” Ok! I wrote about his utterly disingenuous anti-anti-Trumpism, and how it is paving the way for authoritarianism, a while back: 1/ ht...Ridiculous piece from National Review’s editor-in-chief Rich Lowry in the NYT yesterday: “Trump Can Win on Character.” Ok!
I wrote about his utterly disingenuous anti-anti-Trumpism, and how it is paving the way for authoritarianism, a while back:
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/anti-anti-trump-conservatives-are