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Jul 7, 2024, 16 tweets

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We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster

“He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”

leading intellectual historians of fascism

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What American Fascism Would Look Like


It can happen here. And if it does, here is what might become of the country.

-newrepublic.com/series/37/trum…

Yes, That’s Right: American Fascism


Why waste time debating the extent of Trump’s fascism when we ought to be fighting it instead?

-newrepublic.com/article/181258…

The “Day One” Dictatorship


On the law in a fascist America

-newrepublic.com/article/181224…

Revenge and Freedom From Fact


On the media in a fascist America

Imagine, on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a raucous protest by left-wing groups on the streets north of Lafayette Park.

-newrepublic.com/article/181244…

A Right-Wing Counter-Hegemony


On culture in a fascist America

To speculate on what the future of American culture might look like in a second Trump presidency, we must consider the past

-newrepublic.com/article/181271…

The Permanent Counterrevolution


On politics and government in a fascist America

“Does fascism intend to restore state authority or subvert it? Is it order or disorder? Can you be conservatives and subversives at the same time?”

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-newrepublic.com/article/181265…

The End of Civic Compassion


On education in a fascist America

Trump declared: Critical race theory is being forced into our children’s schools __ imposed into workplace trainings __ deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors, and families.

-newrepublic.com/article/181274…

From Texas to Massachusetts


On the border in a fascist America

When I hear Trump rousing his followers at his rallies with his anti-immigrant slurs, talking about immigrants “poisoning” the country’s blood, calling them animals

-newrepublic.com/article/181225…

The Liberal Fantasy Is Just That


On the military in a fascist America

1.3 million active-duty service members and more than 750,000 reservists and National Guard

no legal or organizational mechanism __ military to force out a __ lame-duck president

-newrepublic.com/article/181222…

A Cowed Normality


On daily life in a fascist America

A police state using paramilitaries and vigilante groups to enforce a moral and social order

The forced integration of societal institutions into the state

violence and coercion against opponents

-newrepublic.com/article/181279…

If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless About Immunity as Donald Trump …


What might the current president do with monarchical immunity to act? Sorry, that’s not admissible.

“preserve, protect and defend the Constitution” The Supreme Court __ reinterpreted

-newrepublic.com/article/183422…

Trump Demands Judge Cannon Take Action After Supreme Court Ruling


Donald Trump is using Clarence Thomas’s opinion in the Supreme Court immunity ruling to make his classified documents trial disappear.

Thomas’s questioning follows Trump’s lawyers

-newrepublic.com/post/183504/tr…

Now that Joe has total immunity, many are urging him to be GOP ruthless. Here’s a suggestion for implementing his new powers:

[The article cited is one I posted two posts back on this thread]

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The new Super Hitler has a Jewish daughter, three Jewish grandchildren and was unapologetically supportive of the Jewish state. Quite the plot twist.

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😂

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