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4 Feb, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Here’s what the good people of Georgia are waking up to this morning - local extremist groups, some aligned w MTG, talking on the record about a sustained insurgency against the US.
Read what MTG wrote YESTERDAY, below. She repeats the new MAGA blood libel - that Democrats are an existential threat to the nation, which is why she/other patriots are justified in using violence to stop them. (2/x).

Trump wove all these narratives together, he brought everyone together around the idea Dems/radical left existential threat, he/patriots were going to Save America by keeping them/removing them from power.

MTG isn't just Q - she's MAGA. (3/x)

simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-ha…
For MAGA deradicalization to occur, GOP must:

Stop describing Dems as existential threat
Declare the election valid, Biden legitimate
Declare faith in debate/elections not bullets

More, here: (4/x)

simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-gr…
My fear now, today, is that there is just too much momentum for violence in the post MAGA right.

I worry about the physical safety of Democrats across the country, not just in DC.

For this week the House GOP again choose violence not democracy (5/x).

ndn.org/blog/2021/02/g…
As we debate about what to do, we need to develop a sustained strategy to engage/diffuse the radicalization narrative, not just jail/punish people.

Felt this essay by @anneapplebaum was headed in the right direction.

Defeating COVID also matters (6/x).

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Sat down and talked to noted authoritarian expert, historian @ruthbenghiat about all this earlier this week.

If you have the time the interview is worth watching. She had many important insights into our current moment (7/x).

ndn.org/ben-ghiat/20221
Very smart piece here from @ThePlumLineGS making some of the same points.....(8/x).

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2 Feb
1/So I learned this weekend that my 80 year old aunt, who is healthy but has a bad leg so she can't wait on line for hours or walk long distances, still hasn't been able to get vaccinated in her country in NY State north of NYC. No slots.
2/I looked at our population tables, and even though the Trump Administration said we would have 40m people vaccinated by the end of December, we still have not vaccinated the 22m or so over 75. My aunt is 80 - so even higher risk.
3/The original Trump sin was not building a national testing and tracing regime for the eventually vaccination rollout to be built on top of. We could have learned from building that initial system, and been ready for the incredibly tough task of rapidly vaccinating everyone.
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30 Jan
Over the coming years we are going to learn much more about the major dark episodes of the Trump era, and it’s going to be really bad for Trump, McConnell and the rest of the GOP. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…
Let me offer a few first cuts of what we will come to understand:

1- Trump only won in 2016 due to Russia's help, and that leverage was used by Putin to pressure Trump into a kind of strategic partnership (Helsinki), which included aligning US foreign policy w/Russia's aims.
2 - That among the things Trump did for Putin was the entire wild, reckless Ukraine affair, which both attacked a 2020 Democrat cut in Clinton's muscular foreign policy cloth and denigrated Zelensky and his project.
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29 Jan
No one should be surprised that Trump supporters have taken to political violence.

Trump called for violence against his political enemies at the WH on July 4th, comparing "the left" to Nazis, Communists, Terrorists.

It was the permission structure for all the violence to come.
The language MTG uses in this video TODAY is descended from Trump's July 4th speech, and is itself a call for violence. If her colleague is a "radical left terrorist" then extreme measures can be used to silence her.

This is how they "Save America."

It is disheartening Trump is using "Save America" as his calling card.

"Save America March" was the name of the event on Jan 6th, and as Trump said on July 4th the process of "Saving America" is one which requires violence.

"Save America" is now a call for political violence.
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29 Jan
As we contemplate Trump, from Russia's intervention on his behalf in 2016 to his recent months long assault on our democratic system, I share this IC assessment from Jan 2017. It was all there, then (1/x):
"Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity (2/x)
."...and scope of effort compared to previous operations.

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election (3/x)
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24 Jan
Yes it is almost February and Mitch has not yet turned the majority over to the Senate Dems.

It is a STAGGERING abuse of power.
Here's the latest on Mitch's gross abuse of power, his refusal to turn over the Senate Committees - and thus the Senate itself - to the Democrats.

thehill.com/blogs/floor-ac…
Did a deep dive on how just extreme the GOP's response to Biden has been these last few weeks...simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-gr…
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14 Jan
Channeling @oneunderscore__ reminder that QAnon believes that Trump will ultimately bring "The Storm," a reckoning that includes mass executions of leading Democrats including those in Congress.

Mass executions.

Many in Capitol had QAnon markings.

businessinsider.com/qanon-trump-ca…
At least two Republicans in the House have expressed sympathy for QAnon, a belief system which requires the killing of their colleagues in the US House.

I don't know how they can be allowed to serve any more. nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/…
Watch this excellent @NBCNews piece on QAnon, and Trump's clear stoking of it.

"How Trump’s connection to conspiracy theory community fueled Capitol riot"

today.com/video/how-trum…
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