From another thread, a few weeks ago:
I saw the basics of this coming during the campaign. To me, it was obvious that there was a high risk of Trump winning, and it was obvious that the TrumpGOP were genuine fascists.
But Charlottesville stepped up the pace. That’s when the fascists launched their push for total lockdown.
This sort of privileged complacent bullshit, which is extremely widespread on liberal twitter:
…pisses me off to an utterly homicidal degree.
Those people obviously have no clue what they’re talking about. We did indeed have a presidential candidate that promised ponies, but it wasn’t Bernie.
Were it not for the constraints of twitter, that last one would have a caveat: there’s still a very slight chance of a last-minute impeachment, but it’ll be too late to matter if it happens.
https://twitter.com/omanreagan/status/904941684768645120
Please keep in mind that the message of this is not that Bush and Reagan were decent people.
Watching people wilfully distort their own minds so that they can render fascism psychologically acceptable is not going to be fun.
Best avoid that situation then, yes?
Strangely relevant:
BTW, as a completely tangential point of comparative language diversity:
Australians don’t poop. We crap, or shit, or occasionally take a dump.
Also strangely resonant:
Vox is still screwing up:
That could have been useful, but instead they chose to frame it as if the problem were just that the border patrol was insufficiently efficient and effective.
You can’t resist fascists if you accept their framing.
Almost certainly disastrous for secular and GLBT Americans:
Sociopathic plutocrat determined to destroy nation as an act of revenge:
Or, for a less cynical take, yet another example of an American politician placing tribal party loyalty and establishment power ahead of the good of the country.
More interested in defending the Democratic Party against a challenge from the left than in actually fighting fascism.
