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Will Stancil Profile picture
@whstancil
Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
you know, I used to wonder "how did so many presumably intelligent people talk themselves into appeasing or downplaying the fascists for so long, in some cases literally dooming themselves to being shot by the fascists"

anyway I no longer wonder this
look I'm sure Nate's smart and all but I'm still pretty confident that if there's a guy trying to be a dictator, you say "he's trying to be a dictator!!!" as loudly as possible, not carefully maneuver through a 17-point strategy developed with StAtIsTiCaL MoDeLiNg or whatever
"Ah, remember the famous lesson of European fascism: if only ordinary citizens had spoken up less loudly, and less often, and been more equivocal, Hitler could have been thwarted"
Anyway can't think of any other reasons Nate Silver would desperately want to steer the conversation away from non-electoral threats and back to WHO'S UP IN ARIZONA???

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Sep 14
Honestly kind of furious at Democrats too right now - people like me have spent years trying to get them to take the far-right pressure cooker on social media, and especially Twitter, more seriously - and have been mostly scoffed at and treated as overly-online hysterics
Now we have a VP candidate who has melted his brain with pro-Nazi gutter racism memes, and is actively trying to cause an anti-immigrant pogrom in his home state. ONLINE IS REAL LIFE. TAKE IT SERIOUSLY
The weird affectation that no one pays attention to this stuff - MILLIONS of people pay attention to this stuff. Political types ESPECIALLY pay attention to this stuff.
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Jul 18
Not to state the obvious but the GOP’s obsession with mass deportation doesn’t come from any interest in improving policy outcomes but because it’s a rationale for large-scale state terror against a population the GOP dislikes. It’s a pretext to hurt people for fun
Anti-trans laws? Impossibly vast deportation programs? Attacks on college campuses and protesters? What it all has in common is that it’s a pretext to target a perceived set of enemies and derive pleasure from their pain
That’s why the programmatic details and aims are always so sketchy, why no compromise can be arrived at. They don’t really exist except to give the most meager facial justification.
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Jul 10
The religious zeal that surrounds the anti-Biden obsessives is really frightening. Not even the slightest hint of doubt about the remarkably reckless course of action they're demanding.
Being a few points behind in the polls after two weeks of saturation-level media panic isn't great, but Trump was much further behind in 2016 and still won. There have been last-minute candidate switches before and they ended in disaster.
The fact of the matter remains that Biden had a really bad, weird debate, and then has continued to campaign and serve normally. But the foaming panic has infected every corner of the media and now the Democratic Party and is causing dramatically more damage than the debate did.
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Jul 3
Let’s explain this in very simple terms:

-the media right now is publishing many stories about how Biden should drop out

-those stories are pushing his polls down among swing voters, endangering his campaign

-why shouldn’t/couldn’t they publish the same stories about Trump
The main difference here is not that Biden and Trump have different swing voters - that doesn’t make sense.

The difference is that when Biden does something bad, media says “he should drop out” over and over, but when Trump does, media says “his voters won’t care” and moves on.
The response of the media/political class becomes self-fulfilling. There is no mounting pressure against Trump after horrifying statements and crimes, because everyone agrees it won’t matter. But Biden botches a debate and the narrative mounts for weeks. This is the difference!
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Jul 1
This is an open threat from a far-right account with 2.5 million followers. This is where we are: these fascist goons are so emboldened by our rogue Supreme Court and Donald Trump that they're openly threatening to kill liberal politicians. Image
This guy appears on stage with top Trump luminaries. He is indistinguishable from the worst kind of homicidal Trump troll. These people have just given themselves the power to prosecute, jail, and assassinate their enemies - the point of my tweet - and now are planning to do it.
They are not being remotely ambivalent about what this "You have less than 5 months" refrain means. They are saying they are going to kill us after Trump is elected. They are counting down. They are explicit about it. They are excited by it. Image
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Jun 28
We’ve spent eight years waiting for the political elite in this country to wake up to the fact that Trump is a true authoritarian threat who must be confronted directly before he destroys the foundations of constitutional government and here we are, still waiting
He’s a liar, a thug, a demagogue, and he wants to be a tyrant. You have to fight people like that DIRECTLY: you say what they are, you put them in jail, you keep them out of politics, you resist them with whatever it takes. You don’t rely on them losing a policy debate
The bizarre bankshot approach favored by the American political class has always failed: “Instead of saying what Trump is - instead of saying he’s anathema to American republican government - we’ll tiptoe around it, and say his economic policies are bad”
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