Thread by @monaeltahawy

June 1: Trump threatened to deploy the US military vs US civilians to crush the largest uprising in the US in living memory.
June 3: One of the biggest newspapers in the US published a US senator supporting Trump’s call for military violence vs the Black-led revolution
#Fascism

And look - a NYT columnist defending the publication by the NYT of a US senator’s support for the use of military brutality against protesters protesting police brutality. In the name of “democracy!”

Dangerous and shameful. #Fascism

I’m pretty sure when Mubarak deployed the military vs protestors in Tahrir Square during #Jan25 revolution, the NYT reported on it in a critical way. And here is that same NYT publishing a senator’s support for military deployment vs protestors.

#Fascism isn’t just “over there.”

This is what happens when the military is deployed against protestors.

Dec. 17, 2011, Tahrir Square, #Cairo. To this day we don’t know the name of this hero. I was told her family have prevented her from speaking because they’re ashamed the world saw her like this.
#Fascism

#Fascism does not happen overnight.

When one of your biggest newspapers amplifies its call, you should know that you should have been worried a long time ago.

Who will stop Trump? That is a serious question. Ask it now. Ask it every day.

#TrumpDictatorship #TrumpMustResign

Trump nominated more generals to his cabinet than predecessors. Now he wants military on the streets. That’s why I called him American Sisi right after the inauguration, January 2017

Ironically enough in the NYT.

“He sounds like one of our despots.” nytimes.com/interactive/pr…