NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @TimothyDSnyder.
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Lesson 1: When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
This week, Trump told us who he is. Believe him. If his adminstration picks look like a plan to destroy America from within, it likely is.
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2. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
How do we know this? Because it always is. It's the authoritarian playbook.
Lawsuits are first. Prosecutions are next. America needs to learn these moves fast. It's already later than you think.
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3. To name is to understand.
This is McMuskism: it’s McCarthyism on steroids. Political persecution + Trump + Musk + Silicon Valley surveillance tools. A new technofuelled age of political witch-hunts.
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