Boldly locating the very important sliver of Venn overlap between “an insurrectionist mob, orchestrated by an authoritarian president directly against the official recognition of his opponent’s electoral victory for purpose of overturning the election” and “not a coup.”
https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1347284511399292929
For some the immediate task becomes normalization. "It can't happen here, and this is here, and it is happening, so it cannot be this."
https://twitter.com/donkyourenemies/status/1347498266565484545?s=20
It's the same reason that Trump didn't really mean the Nazis when he said "many fine people," or didn't really mean the Nazis when he told them "stand down and stand by" or didn't really mean the Nazis when this week he said "I love you." Or else they aren't *really* Nazis.
It's the reason that Laura Ingraham didn't *really* give a Nazi salute at the Republican National Convention, which she absolutely did.
The rationale being, if she had, obviously in America any media figure doing so would have lost their job, and look, she still has her job.
The rationale being, if she had, obviously in America any media figure doing so would have lost their job, and look, she still has her job.
Trump and his cabinet and Guliani and over 100 Republican congresspeople and at least some of the Capital police and 1000s of others actively worked to overthrow the U.S. government, and luckily they're idiots and failed, and some people's takeaway is "our safeguards are strong."
My patience with complacency has never been lower.
However: as a frequent critic of her complacency specifically and media complacency in general, I would be remiss if I didn't say I'm glad McArdle does now support removal ASAP.
This is a welcome change.
This is a welcome change.
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