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Will Stancil Profile picture
@whstancil
Aug 25, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Democrats control a significant majority of America's votes, its most prosperous regions, and the House. They have sufficient power and resources to meet GOP intransigence blow for blow, and the only reason they don't is squeamishness over maximalism
Meanwhile the GOP is exercising every lever of power available to it, and testing out new levers all the time, in a scorched-earth campaign to destroy every institution valued by the left, liberals, and even the center.
Obviously, Democrats should aspire for a politics where they don't have to be on war footing all the time, where there's room for comity and dialogue. But sometimes the war is brought to you, and you have to win the war it in order to secure the peace.
Exhortations about the importance of preserving Our Shared Norms are worthless when the other side has indicated it will only preserve any given institution up to the moment it interferes with their will to power, and thereafter gleefully detonate that institution.

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Jun 1
It’s clear that if the Holocaust happened today in America huge swaths of MAGA would describe it as “based,” say “this is what we voted for,” and do the “oh are you gonna cry, lib?” routine.
There’s zero reason their gleeful celebration of brutal deportations wouldn’t extend to actual extermination. The psychological mechanism is identical: they tell themselves morals are for suckers and empathy is for losers, so immortality and cruelty become a proactive good.
It’s the politics of sadism - hurting people for pleasure. Do we truly believe that they’d draw the line at killing? Frankly they’ve ALREADY killed and didn’t care at all.
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Feb 20
The craziest thing that is actually true is that a relatively small group of very literal Nazis has completely seized control of the US government
They have accomplished by building a tight-knit community in the dark corners of the internet, then establishing a lot of influence over the inner circle of MAGA, especially Musk and Vance
Musk empowered them massively by taking over Twitter and then removing almost all restrictions on them, while promoting many of their most notable figures. Musk seems extremely taken with them personally and spends a lot of time trying to impress them
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Feb 18
"I wonder what this relatively small account that Elon Musk follows is?"

"Oh I see, it just posts porn and Nazism only." Image
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It's not subtle. This account tweets and retweets constantly about things like "not wanting to hear retarded blacks and their retarded opinions," the need to "make America blonde again," how America should be a "white nation," and celebrates Trump as the second coming of Hitler. Image
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This account is followed by the most powerful man in America, who is running the government, who spends all of his time on Twitter, who gave a Nazi salute at the inauguration and who has espoused anti-Jewish replacement theory, whose underlings keep getting outed as Nazis.
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Feb 9
People are delusional about what happens if Musk and Trump ignore the law, the Constitution, and court orders. Everyone is acting like this is a standoff over USAID and a few other programs, and then we'll go back to politics as normal.
But THERE CAN BE NO POLITICS AS NORMAL IF THERE IS NO LAW. Musk can cut anything. He can eliminate any part of the government. He can punish anyone. Who could stop him? Congress will be pointless theater. Why do laws matter if they can be ignored?
Your vote won't matter. You can elect someone to Congress, but he or she will be powerless. Trump can simply ignore what they say.

Your rights won't matter. The courts can say they've been violated, but the president can ignore them.
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Feb 8
You need to take a step back, take stock of what's happening.
Trump took office and abruptly gave the richest guy on earth free rein to unmake the US government without any White House oversight or coordination. That guy has been publicly radicalized into an increasingly open white supremacist and conspiracy theorist.
Trump's plan here was concealed during his campaign and is historically unprecedented. No president has ever handed the US government over to his richest supporter before. It is also extremely far removed from the constitutional system: there's no role for someone like Musk.
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Feb 7
DOGE is, in the truest sense, a rogue agency. The White House has admitted it doesn't really know what DOGE is doing, it's commandeering critical systems, it's resourced by an independent oligarch, it's tearing chunks out of the government. It's a rogue actor in US government
DOGE is serving an incoherent agenda all its own. That agenda is a mix of its owner's business interests, his far-right conspiratorial politics, his need to impress his horde of Twitter Nazis, and his arrogant billionaire cluelessness about how anything works.
DOGE is not really part of the Trump administration and even less part of the US government. It's an independent entity, a manifestation of Musk's own wealth and his subordination of the GOP elite, given a slim veneer of legitimacy by a checked-out and incompetent president.
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