Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES

I wanted to write a few last thoughts before I go off the grid. Perspectives around events are shaped by many factors. Time is a powerful one. Occasionally, its forward march creates before and after moments of shocking and electrifying clarity

around intentions and beliefs. Actions, that just moments before, remained hidden in a mist of purposeful concealment are revealed. @TuckerCarlson in Hungary, slandering the character of the American people with a not so subtle rejection of American democracy thrown in is such

a moment. It seems so obvious now, the inevitability of the overt embrace of a replacement theory for the American system of Government. A great and brilliant bloom of fascism, undressed, naked and in the open has blossomed across America and Europe this week. @TuckerCarlson

solved a very difficult dilemma for the American Nationalist cause, Trump its’ leader, and millions of its devotees by clarifying what it is they believe in this week. @TuckerCarlson understood they stood on indefensible terrain and needed to move to new ground. He knew that they

could be undone by a great contradiction. How could they continue to embrace democracy and pluralism while subverting it with poisonous lies? It’s so obvious with the perspective of hindsight. They have dropped democracy from the equation and have declared there is a replacement,

a better system, a better way. It will embrace freedom and a defense of civilization as its cause. In the name of freedom it will establish an intellectual framework to justify minority rule and the distribution of power amongst a few over a lesser than majority. The power of

the state is supreme over the individual in this replacement system. Only in a democracy is the individual more powerful than the state. @newtgingrich has fully embraced white supremacist replacement theory on @FoxNews and he isn’t alone. Dozens of conservative writers are

authoring manifestos for the New Right. I believe @TuckerCarlson means every word. He has the skills and the platform to spread this poison to every crevice in the country. This must be confronted. Now. Immediately. It must be opposed by all and any peaceful means. There

are more people in America that believe in democracy than fascism, but that is not the question. The question is what side has the most people who care enough to show up and vote. I worry about the answer.