What's interesting is how easily the pseudo- or intellectual-ish, writerly class slips into totalitarianism & advocates violence & persecution of all dissent. I know, like academics, they're all cheap dates & keenly sensitive to/easily swayed by whoever writes the checks, but...
...it's still wild to me how easily they embrace hatred & persecution of their enemies. It's natural to fear their overlords, who are very, very angry right now at Bad Orange Man and fighting an existential fight. So I get it. They sense the coming purge & must signal rightly.
But they don't HAVE to jump this high. Stop pretending any of this has anything to do with anything intellectual, at least—it is all just performative wrangling to cancel the other. None of these people will substantively address Anton's article which went viral and drew blood.
Instead, they increasingly hurl names at their opponents like bratty schoolboys—fascist, racist, etc.—and this increasingly what the $ wants. Then rally 'round each other each time they move further towards normalizing talk of the death of their enemies.
Everyone involved knows better, deep down. But the incentives are all in one direction, and the strength of the bubbles they live in grows daily. And everyone needs a paycheck. But what we need, in truth, is a counter-revolution that breaks free of this entire dynamic.
This will require breaking the cultural power of the ruling class. And in a very real sense, that is what this election is about & why the opposition is so frenzied from the top. Elites freaking out—Trump wins again & they lose cultural power. Writerly class might freed up...
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Speak of wishful ironies, what *if* the unprecedented mobilization of the entire federal government apparatus, in conjunction with billions from supportive NGOs, to "get [their] vote out", backfires when many of these voters vote for Trump?
First, what makes this an unprecedented election year is not merely the insane rhetoric and lawfare against Trump, but the complete weaponization of the entire federal government (HUD, USDA, the FAFSA, etc.) working with Dem foundations and non-profits to "get [their] vote out".
This change, combined with everything else we've seen in the past few years (from widespread changes in voting laws "because COVID" to the complete, cancel-culture enforced politicization of every major institution) would seem enough to solidify a one-party national state.
🧵Everyone needs to clearly understand this: "3 yrs ago, Joe Biden issued an executive order titled, 'Promoting Access to Voting.' Its stated goal was to 'promote & defend the right to vote,' and Biden directed every agency in government to participate." theblaze.com/columns/opinio…
"Federal agencies were somehow supposed to look into voter registration, expand vote-by-mail, and use approved third-party organizations to help them get it all done. We all saw what approved third-party organizations meant in 2020. It meant partisan politics with strings attached. In short, Biden refused to let us know just what this executive order was meant to do."
"...it’s essentially “Zuck Bucks” on government-funded steroids, and new information appears to prove this... This email was revealed by the @OversightPR:
Y'all had asked for some data on voter registration through NVRA [National Voter Registration Act] at the state level, which I’ve pasted below. So the Department of Agriculture — of all agencies — had enlisted the support of this approved third-party to get their info at state level on voter registration data."
🧵If what Fournier says is true it is the first I, the Editor in Chief at @TheBlaze, has heard about it. However, earlier today, we received the following statement from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight (@standwithbarry/@RepLoudermilk):
“An allegation of a Capitol Police officer lying under oath is very serious and must be fully investigated. For this reason, I am releasing these still frames from USCP CCTV video footage, with timestamps, showing the movements of Officer Lazarus on January 6, 2021.”
The root of all the ongoing madness, division, and lack of trust in institutions is that, over the last 7 years, something surfaced from previously unseen depths—and now you either see it or vehemently deny it.
2 big catalysts:
A) The campaign against Trump claiming Russian collusion, etc. by government agencies & actors, politicians & partisan operatives, media, & major institutions.
B) The response to COVID-19 by government agencies & actors, politicians & partisan operatives, media, & institutions.
Special nod also to what’s been exposed in the education system, which is having the same effect.
For many, one or all of the above revealed the deep corruption of the authorities.
For everyone on all sides, each of these revealed how corrupt and evil their opponents are.
"This shift will soon become the most significant change in America in living memory."
Wrote this before Rich Men North of Richmond, Bud Light, Target, Sound of Freedom, etc., but all these ever-increasing examples pale in comparison to what's coming.
THREAD on exciting news and my personal trajectory amidst all the madness.
In 2020, as we hurtled towards election day, @rikkiratliff (champion) had me on with @glennbeck to talk about how the Right had failed to organize and prepare for what was coming.
The response from the audience was overwhelming; it saddened me as I knew it was too late to do any of what was need to change the outcome. When the inevitable happened that November, I knew I needed to stop complaining and just go out and build things I knew were needed.
At time I was a VP at @ClaremontInst, where I founded @theammind w/@jamespoulos & headed up the Fellowship programs, all of which was fostered/made possible by @RpwWilliams.
Still involved! Will meet this yr's Lincoln & Marshall Fellows later this month.