,
7 tweets,
2 min read
Read on Twitter
I won't keep spamming my TNR bit but I feel compelled to note that every stagger Trump takes towards pure racial fascism is led by Fox News. The more white nationalist they get the more white nationalist he gets, because it's all he watches and he obsesses over their approval.
He doesn't have ideas, really. He doesn't read and doesn't listen, and all he knows about what's happening in the world is what he sees on Fox News and Fox Business, which he watches because they cover him a lot. If they're going in on Ilhan Omar, he will, too, just the same.
This is how conservative media works re: staking out extreme positions and making pols gesture in that direction. This is just a uniquely stupid, uniquely insecure guy. Everyone capitulating to him is as craven and lame as they've always been. It's just not come to this before.
Sometimes it really just feels like It Can't Happen Here is just an optimistic way of saying No One Has Really Been Serious About Trying It Here. Trump is dumb as shit and deathly afraid of Lou Dobbs calling him a pussy on TV. He'd kill many poor people to avoid that.
Anyway long way around to me spamming the TNR thing again, but: newrepublic.com/article/154100…
I've written the same shit about him a dozen times at least. It's amazing and frightening that Democrats don't seem to get that you can't do a deal with this guy, or find common ground. It's not in him. He will just take and take. deadspin.com/the-nfl-is-too…
There are no deals to be made with Trumpism because it and he cannot bargain. There's no strategizing around it because it and he do not strategize. You either push it into the fucking sea or it will destroy every value this country has ever been proud to claim. That's it.
