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22 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Tell you what, for such a big strong, tough president it sure seems like Donald Trump is as thin-skinned and as pitiable as they come.
It's almost like MAGA and Trumpism are masculine overcompensations that are actually more about weakness than they are strength.

And it's almost like these phenomenons are just masks being worn by insecure, terrified men.
And it's almost like our entire conception of what fascism is, that it relies on "strongmen" is completely wrong and off-base and that we've been misunderstanding masculine insecurity and deadly overcompensation.
Here's a deeper dive into the reality that Trump and other authoritarians playing "strongman" are actually insecure and terrified and overcompensating for their failures to live up to the masculine ideal.

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Jared Yates Sexton Profile picture
20 Oct
As Trump grows more desperate he's trying everything, including spreading dangerous conspiracy theories that have inspired massive terrorist attacks.

We have to examine the history.

For the whole disturbing story, check out my book AMERICAN RULE.

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This appeal that Trump is now using everywhere that Biden will "take away your guns and your god" has a basis in the fascistic conspiracy theories that have led to mass slaughter and killings, including in America.

He's going to get people killed.

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Every poll, internal or public, shows that Trump has a narrowing chance of victory, and as that window closes he's going to try more and more dangerous techniques to hold onto power.

What we're talking about is fascistic appeals that regularly inspire terrorism.

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14 Oct
Hillbilly Elegy is Right Wing propaganda that actively promotes Reaganomics, the poor as deserving of their suffering, and intentionally obscures racism and white supremacy as major factors in America’s decline.
Also, Hillbilly Elegy became a bestseller because the media needed a Middle American Poverty For Dummies to help explain Trumpism because they had all but ignored suffering outside of their bubbles. It laundered Trumpism, continues stereotyped, and was Right Wing propaganda.
For what it’s worth, most of us who grew up in rural poverty recognize Hillbilly Elegy as a destructive and bad-faith propaganda piece that was championed by people who had no idea what they were talking about and were hopelessly lost in their own privilege.
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12 Oct
Okay.

With this Amy Coney Barrett farce, we need to examine how the GOP and evangelical Right merged to protect white supremacy and aristocratic control, resulting in Donald Trump and rising fascism.

For more on this, pick up my book AMERICAN RULE.

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As I detailed in the latest American Rule lecture, America was founded and designed to support a white supremacist aristocracy and control everyone else.

Recent history has been dictated by the Right's desperate attempt to maintain that control.

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With the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, who could shift the balance of power in the Supreme Court for decades, we are seeing the realization of a Right Wing project that has defined American history for the past six decades.

It's about control by a white aristocracy.

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9 Oct
Unfortunately, I spend a lot of time on here talking about the rise of fascism and how that poisonous ideology destroys democracy and society.

I want to take a second to talk about how to fight back on a personal level as it is weaponized trauma inflicted on the individual.

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Fascism, as I've written about, is an attack on reality that's meant to radicalize people by racist paranoia, but also in how it atomizes society, makes us feel alone, powerless, and continually inflicts personal harm.

Here are a few thoughts and resources to combat this.

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Because fascism constantly shifts and relies on propaganda that intentionally fractures objective reality, I endorse @sarahkendzior 's advice to keep a journal.

The internet is shifting type, media cycles are numbing, but we can keep a record of what we know to be true.

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8 Oct
I'm grateful Mike Lee came out explicitly opposing democracy so we can talk about Trump, Republicans as fascists, our white supremacist founding, and America's direct link to Nazism.

For more on this hidden history, pick up my book AMERICAN RULE.

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I just recorded the second AMERICAN RULE lecture on this topic: the founding of America wasn't the mythological fairytale we've been told. It was a move by wealthy, white, slaveholding men to consolidate power.

It was vehemently anti-democratic.

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Mike Lee gave away the entire store.

What the Republican Party is doing right now is trying to destroy all democratic institutions in order to maintain power even as they are becoming a very small minority of the country.

It's fascism. A rewinding of the clock.

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6 Oct
Let's talk about Trump's fascist posturing last night, the death cult that worships him, and how fascism is a war on reality as well as masculine overcompensation.

To be clear, we're in deep, deep, DEEP trouble.

For more, read my book AMERICAN RULE.

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I want to be right up front with this. We're in the grips of a fascist movement in this country that operates like a murderous death cult.

This is what happens when a country with a nationalist religion begins to falter. We have to call it what it is

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Trump performed live propaganda last night, staging for Americans a show of strength and power, ripping the mask off, posturing, all of it a matter of reassuring everyone he was stronger than the virus.

It was fascist propaganda. Pure and simple.

Let's break it down.

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