I actually think the standards for elected representatives should be very high and the bar at which you should have to resign should be very low.

These positions should be treated as the sacred trust they are, not as unassailable fortified positions free of consequence.
Almost any clear breach of public trust should be career-ending. These positions should be treated as the sacred trust they are. Then we'd get the leaders we deserve.

Almost every president of my lifetime should have been impeached. At least three should have been removed.
Every Republican and a lot of Democrats would in a healthy society be tendering their resignations, is what I'm saying. Local state and national level.

Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley shouldn't resign. They should be arrested already. They should be awaiting a quick trial.
I think it sets a terrible precedent to even give Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley the option to resign. Resigning is the dignified and principled act of an honorable person, and they have abandoned dignity, principle, and honor. Such as them shouldn't be afforded dignity's trappings.

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10 Jan
"I want to work with the more sane elements of the Nazi Party and find compromises that help them rehabilitate the party. We should try to encourage the Nazis closer to the center to work with us on our shared values for real solutions for everyone"

Is how it sounds these days.
They just tried to murder Congress. Not a fringe element. Not a handful of protestors. A gang of fascists directed by the President in an attempt to overturn a democratic election that overcame their systemic disenfranchisement, abetted by over 100 representatives and Senators.
The Republican Party is a party so opposed to Black people voting that it dedicated itself to the overthrow of the U.S. government.

That's how it should be talked about, and that's how it should be treated, in public opinion, and under the law.

Because that's what it is.
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Rep Peter Meijer is my rep. He is in a party where his colleagues perform fascist acts of propaganda for profit or because they fear violent retribution from their fascist constituents, and he knows this, and he nevertheless stays in his fascist party. So much for him.
The incentive for leaving a fascist party is no longer belonging to a fascist party. It’s not our job to provide additional enticement. It’s our job to oppose.

If not accepting fascism is extreme, let us be extreme.
Let’s stop and list all the incredible accomplishments of our favorite heroes through history who worked to fight for change from the inside as loyal members of a fascist party.
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Three days ago, the President used his supporters as a weapon to try to murder Congress. There should be a bias against the right. It's justified.

Conservatives can imagine no greater oppression than the consequences of their own actions.
People really don't seem to have taken on board how bad what happened was, or how bad it might still prove to be; they certainly haven't realized just how bad it could have been.

They fucking denied the National Guard. It was orchestrated.

The complacency here is astonishing.
Anyway it sort of feels that if we'd be wrong about the Republican party being a fascist white supremacist party the leader they still protect and support wouldn't have sent a crowd full of Nazis to murder Congress on Wednesday, I dunno.
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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.”
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."
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.
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Republicans caused this to happen, because they wanted it to happen.

The president.
The Senators.
The Representatives.
And their voters.

An open show that they care about nothing but domination. That is their politics.

The American Fascist Party.
The gates were opened for them.

Later they were escorted out.

In between, they delivered their message. This space belongs to white supremacy, because this country belongs to white supremacy.

And now those who orchestrated it will pretend they had nothing to do with it.
"The worst of us are safer at their very worst than any of the rest of you are at your best."

That's the message. Republicans have delivered it for decades, last year most notably in their Covid policy.

They're very consistent to it.

The American Fascist Party.
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Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.

You take a step toward him. He takes a step back.

Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.
There aren't two separate tribes; there are hundreds—thousands—of different ways of living, all of us living together trying to honor each other's humanity. And then there are Republicans, who want to dominate everyone as the sole default, and call everyone else "the other side."
There aren't two separate realities. There's only reality. And then their are Republicans, who have built an unsustainable tower of self-dealing lies that they try to force all the rest of us to live in, which they call "reality."
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