Authoritarianism Expert Warns Why It's Critical To Listen To Trump's Words Right Now
Ruth Ben-Ghiat explained how authoritarian takeovers usually go down.
They. Don't. Care.
Republicans have become a fascist cult.
They literally tried to overthrow our democracy.
It's insane that we're treating them as anything less than a modern Nazi party.
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12 people sitting at a table with one Nazi = 13 Nazis. Don't negotiate with terrorists.
Problem is anyone with any capacity to hear this has been listening since 2016, and everyone else is... well deaf doesn't really cover it. Is there a condition where your ears grow inside out and become megaphones that blare circus music?
Pretty sure you can see that in the animated parts of Monty Python
The butt trumpets are a more accurate analogy, too.
He has been signaling for years now and all of a sudden you think people will listen and take action??
No. Of course not.
We are going to let happen whatever happens and then pretend like there were no warning signs.
"How could we have known?" -- clueless people.
They are listening; that's the problem. I've disconnected from almost my entire family because Trump has reached Dear Leader status with them, and you can't have a normal conversation anymore without insane levels of hate and nonsense being injected into the conversation.
The people at this level aren't living in reality. They like what they hear.
Is it just me? I feel like I could hear him better if he were, you know, in jail.
Know your enemy. We need to know the crap that people are hearing and thinking "yeah, he speaks for me."
Is there a way to filter out posts that have the word Trump or Biden in it?
I just want to hear about other candidates for the primaries in hope people actually reconsider who to vote for in US primaries.
The Republican primary is currently Trumpism repackaged, for every viable candidate.
There will not be a Democrat primary.
Sad, I had a list of candidates I wanted to see on both sides. Which probably wouldn't have mattered as I would have been leaning towards Tulsi likely most of the time compared to others in my list
No fucking shit.
I think Trump is in no matter what for the repubs. But the democrats man, like come on. They’re treating this as if Biden already won the primaries. He isn’t popular at all in the Democrat base. Give me someone to root for.
He’s the corporate dem tho so we won’t see media following anyone else.
He’s the corporate dem tho so we won’t see media following anyone else.
That's not true. There's a RFK Jr., who the press is paying attention to because he's to the right of Biden and also a crazy anti-Semitic antivaxxer.
And there's also breathless speculation about nature's perfect centrist democrat Joe Manchin running.
I wonder when the last time a progressive primaried a sitting president was.
Biden's approval rating with democrats is about the same as Obama's was in 2011. All holding a primary would do is weaken their position in the general election. I can't tell if this is a deliberate propaganda campaign or people are actually this clueless and think incumbent presidents regularly compete in primaries.
The Dems just pick their candidate.
They are not tied to the primary results at all.