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27 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
America is in a moment of crisis and beset by a fascistic movement in Trumpism and the Republican Party.

AMERICAN RULE explains how we got here, dispels the lies that imperil democracy, and offers a way to fight back.

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This moment, this attack on democratic institutions, the theft of the Supreme Court and a possible stolen election, is a result of generations’ worth of lies, manipulations, and an anti-democratic project.

If we’re going to escape it, we must learn how we arrived here.
Hope is not lost.

History teaches us that once we separate truth from fiction, when we organize and act in unison, we can overcome great injustices.

The truth is that this feeling of powerlessness is by design. Read AMERICAN RULE. We’ve been here before and we can still win.
Fascism relies on national myths like American Exceptionalism. When power groups lose their grip on power they attack democratic institutions, pervert the law, and abandon principles.

This is where we are. With Trump, with the GOP. The fight’s not over, but it vital that we win.
The reason the Right stole the Court and why they’re answering protest with violence is because they’ve lost electoral viability. This is a minority movement looking to protect their past power by means of theft, intimidation, and outright anti-democratic action.
We can win.

We must win.

But victory depends on us understanding the true history of America and its politics and seeing through these tactics. We have to get educated, get angry, and get organized.

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Jared Yates Sexton Profile picture
28 Oct
I want to talk about why I wrote my book AMERICAN RULE, the truth of American history, and why it is vital we defeat Donald Trump.

Trumpism is fascism. Literally. We are fighting for the future of America and the human race. And we must win.

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Donald Trump's victory in 2016 was made possible through a variety of factors, but it was the culmination of a generation-long project by the Republican Party to reestablish white aristocratic supremacy.

It was a rewinding of the clock and inherently fascist.

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The disturbing truth we must wrestle with is that American history has been manipulated, edited, and weaponized.

Trumpism is an attempt to roll back time to hidden white aristocratic supremacy and if he wins we might be trapped forever.

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25 Oct
It’s a false choice to say you have to choose between getting the pandemic under control and saving the economy.

Republicans and their wealthy constituency are unwilling to try anything because to even cede an inch would mean admitting our economic order is intentionally unfair.
The powerful in this country know our economy, with its cruelty and vast inequality, is a fragile order in their favor and to even attempt to address the pandemic or people’s suffering might topple that rigged game.
It’s really very simple.

The wealthy and powerful value their wealth and power more than your life, your family’s lives, and the lives of every other American. They’ll sacrifice millions without blinking.

That’s the reality of this situation.
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22 Oct
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.
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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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