Thread by @A_Holmesian

@pbmehta 1/x I feel the game is different here. #Modi & #AmitShah aren’t strategic geniuses - they are bullyboy street thugs with the usual incoherent anti-modernist crap that passes for #Sangh ideology, but with a masterful command of PR and media savvy.

@pbmehta 2/x This combined with the institutional capture that the #Sangh spent decades dreaming about, makes them lethal. I don’t think they have the slightest illusion that this will solve the #Kashmir problem - but the mistake is in thinking they care. This is in fact even better.

@pbmehta 3/x This creates the perfect excuse for a perpetual rolling national emergency. ‘When the country is at war, how can you talk about falling car sales?! Don’t you care about the country!?!’ Substitute with demonetisation, GST, recession, #BJP members raping minors, whatever...

@pbmehta 4/x Think this is alarmism? Remember that the government can now designate *anyone* a terrorist without having to prove it? #Modi, #Shah & their cronies can now unleash a #Putin style kleptocratic takeover of the economy, but if you complain, you’re a terrorist!

@pbmehta 5/5 Every member of the middle class who voted for these fascist crooks, this is on you! They were always murderers - they never hid that fact. *You* pretended to believe in their ‘economic policies’ (whatever they were) to justify your bigotry, and helped to destroy the Republic

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