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10 Jan, 8 tweets, 2 min read
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.
It's a total giveaway.
I'm trying to imagine holding the point of view "if every Republican who was alarmed by the direction of the party left the party, it wouldn't change things," and I'm failing.

If you're a Republican, you have only one move left, if you would be a moral person. That's to leave the party. That's it.

Don't lend your finer qualities and your support to evil people who have already promised to squander them on atrocities.

I'm just a messenger here.
Republicans who openly talk about how alarmed they are about the state of the GOP *without actually taking the step that would immediately change the situation* are simply looking for a way to get their reputations and consciences laundered.

And it's our job to point that out.
The man who cries as he just follows orders isn't more moral than the one who doesn't.

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11 Jan
Their crimes, no matter how brutal or shocking, immediately become about their redemption, prior even to any consequence.

Their lies, no matter how vacant, become valid perspectives, and we are tasked with not only understanding them but sympathizing.
Their hatred of others becomes something from which they alone suffer.

Their excuses are valid simply because they have made them.

The things they did are always too far in the past to address.

The things they are threatening to do are always too speculative to prevent.
Their greed is celebrated for driving the economy.

Their selfishness, for building wealth.

Their violence is always justified by their fear.

They are never too old to commit youthful indiscretions, even when those indiscretions leave a trail of trauma and corpses.
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11 Jan
Joe Biden [stabbed by a dozen Republican Senators on the Capitol steps] Oh gee now *come on* man.
Et tu, Lindsey? you gotta be kidding me, man
Really unhelpful malarkey. [stabbed six more times] You're better than this.
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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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9 Jan
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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9 Jan
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.
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8 Jan
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."
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