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6 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Ted Cruz speaking now about how Senate needs to consider the hurt feelings of people making debunked and delusional claims of vote fraud.

Apparently facts should care about conservative feelings, even deluded ones.
James Lankford of Oklahoma giving another speech claiming that you must consider the feelings of people who believe falsehoods instead of disabusing them of their delusions.
Senate mysteriously went into recess. Members in session but are unmiced as Trump militia storms Capitol. The Cannon Senate building has been evacuated per CSPAN.
Capitol in lockdown and Pence evacuated as violent Trump supporters try to reach the floor.

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6 Jan
Trump fascists are running around with an effigy hung by a noose. Trying to confirm the purported gallows photo that's being circulated. gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph… Image
OK this gallows image is real. It's just outside the Capitol building complete with a noose and ready for a lynching. Saul Loeb / Getty Images
More: A Trump worshipper kneels before a giant cross amidst the radical Christian terrorism. Win Mcnamee / Getty Images Image
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6 Jan
For the past 6 years, I & a few other journalists have been trying to get the mainstream press and political elites realize the major danger posed by the radical right. Unfortunately, moderate and liberal elites deluded themselves into thinking that conservatism wasn't a cult.
There is no secretly powerful "Republican establishment" that will fix things. There are thugs, deluded people, and there are quislings. There is no one else in the GOP. Instead of focusing on the radical right's danger, editors wanted stories about Trump tweets.
Instead of calling out the dangerous radicalism of the GOP, television debate shows and opinion pages invited the enablers of fascism to speak and write about how we all needed to give powerful insane people the benefit of the doubt.
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6 Jan
Just a reminder to all the supporters of outgoing president Trump who actually think he can still remain in office, he does not believe this himself.

It's all a show to force GOP elites to remain loyal to him and to get your cash: politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
This is the very worst aspect of American conservatism: Elites like Trump, Loeffler, Cruz, etc know that the outrageous things they've been doing and saying are untrue.

But they are so very, very useful.
For 60 years, the conservative movement has leveraged minority control of a single political party by getting its base of fundamentalist Christians so fired up that they vote at disproportionately higher rates.

But as the base shrinks, the motivation methods become worse.
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4 Jan
While sexism, religious & racial nationalism are factors in Trump support, local economic stagnation is a big factor also.

GOP elites have figured out how to combine marginalization fears and exploit them rather than be rightfully blamed for the economic problems they caused.
GOP political consultants invented identity politics for southern white Christians but as the strategy succeeded, they expanded its purview into a theory of inverse intersectionality in which racial or sexual minorities can support Christian white nationalism
Under inverse intersectionality, a black male atheist can lend support to Proud Boys white nationalism because it's anti-feminist and labeled as "western chauvinism"
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31 Dec 20
It's fascinating and hilarious that the only people who seem to fall for 4chan "troll-the-libs" operations are conservatives. Here's a short thread on a fake "Trans Rights Campaign" meme that only right-wingers fell for.
It all began in August of last year when an anonymous poster on 4chan's /pol/ board made the image used in the first tweet and instructed fellow posters to start spreading it: archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/223…
Apparently the campaign wasn't successful however because for some reason, the meme only started popping up in right-wing websites in 2020. It's appeared in several places including Pulpit and Pen: pulpitandpen.org/2019/08/14/str…
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28 Dec 20
What's known as American conservatism is mostly rural white cultural sensibilities that have been marketed as a political philosophy. This is nowhere more evident than the many children's books that have been published to fulfill a supposed need for "godly" kid-lit.
A few more. Please note that these are all real and that I've provided only a small sampling here.
More:
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