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What's happening in Wisconsin is a crime against the people. Forcing them to go against public health warnings and risk their lives to vote is the logical endpoint of the GOP's war on free and fair and elections.

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We need to look at Wisconsin today and realize that if we're going to have elections in November, if we're going to continue as a liberal democracy in any way, shape, or form, we'd better get serious about planning and reform.

We don't have any time to spare.
Let’s be clear. The Republican Party attacks elections, makes them inconvenient, opposes reform, and actively disenfranchises people because it knows, as a political body, it cannot win free and fair elections.

This isn’t disputed. They’ve said as much. And it’s fascistic.
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So.

We should talk about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Black Easter of 1865 that forever changed America by knotting national identity and religion and hiding our toxic racism.

Here's what I learned writing AMERICAN RULE.

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First, we have to start with the Confederacy. What people need to understand is that the Civil War was due in part to a splitting of national identity and a struggle over the soul of what American was meant to be.

The CSA believed they were the REAL AMERICA ordained by God.

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The Confederacy claimed possession over the American identity. They surrounded themselves with American iconography, especially George Washington.

Their motto was that God was on their side.

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A fun thing to remember is that when Trump met with Kim Jong Un he kept expressing that he wished the media worshiped him like a murderous dictator's and continually referred to Fox News as mostly fair but "sometimes tough."

Seriously. He's incredibly dangerous.
Trump actually believes that Fox News, a literal corporate propaganda arm that has retconned every dangerous and absurd decision he's ever made, is unfair to him and isn't loyal enough.

Now he's pushing OANN, a racist, fever dream, paranoid machine.
Trump is an endless black hole of need. He's an authoritarian and needs constant, unrelenting worship, but even that worship is never enough.

His entire management style is predicated on that, like every authoritarian. He has to pit sycophants against one another.
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It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Right Wing and corporate agenda makers planned on rolling out a full scale “reopen the economy” blitz over Easter weekend and Trump couldn’t help but jump the gun and push it weeks before.
The possibility that Trump might’ve previewed the Eastern weekend reopening push on Fox News, which was awful fast in unleashing the “that would be a great American resurrection!” line is also there, but it’s obviously an organized rhetorical push with the holiday.
People need to understand that political movements, particularly ones like the GOP that actively blend nationalistic and religious ideologies, use holy days and holidays for rhetorical foundations. The idea of a resurrection is usable for a messiah and national/economic purposes.
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