Oh so we’re still doing this in 2021 huh.
“Where is OUR voice?” asks the group defined by every bigotry, catered to by a political party, catered to by their own national propaganda channels, catered to by the police, by law, catered to by the Senate, by gerrymandered supermajorities, by dominant economic constructs.
One difference is that while there have been no laws targeting transphobic asshats, there have been laws, and recent ones, targeting trans people.

Another is that if this were like the days of the Red Scare, Chait would never dare speak in defense of one of its targets.
What Chait is saying is that he sees no principled difference between oppression and opposition.

But we do.

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14 Feb
No way to remove a Republican president from office, anyway. It hasn't been tested but seems to me likely 17 Democratic Senators would have voted to remove a Democratic president who had tried to murder them.

But for a Republican president there exists no crime great enough.
Take it to the greatest extreme you could imagine.

"If Trump dropped a nuclear weapon and vaporized an American city, most Republican Senators would vote to exonerate—even Senators from the state in which that city had been incorporated."

That seems right. I'd buy that.
I mean this isn't a worse argument than those we got from Republicans after the insurrection.
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14 Feb
Amazing to note that the 38.2%—perhaps the most over-represented people in the history of democracy—are furious, driven almost entirely by resentment that they are the oppressed ones: forgotten, neglected, and downtrodden.

Fascists only believe in the existence of themselves.
The more our country tries to free itself from white supremacy, the more the structures designed to preserve and entrench white supremacy, such as the Senate and the Electoral College, begin to present themselves.
It's worth noting this distinction—though the % of people supporting Trump nationwide is also approximately 40%, and Republicans very clearly represent only those people.

So, entrenched white supremacy isn't an exact system but it takes care of its own.
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13 Feb
The Democrats in charge of calling these shots didn't ever want to call witnesses, is the clear takeaway.
I love to surrender to a terrorist's threats, and if the threat is an empty threat? even better
GIVEN REPUBLICAN COMPLICITY, THE JOB WASN'T TRYING AND CONVICTING THE PRESIDENT, THE JOB WAS TRYING AND CONVICTING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR THEIR COMPLITITY IN HIS CRIMES AND MAKING THEIR VOTE AS DAMNING AS POSSIBLE, GODAMNIT HOW DOES EVERYBODY NOT SEE THIS ARGGGGGGG
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13 Feb
Just irretrievably weak and ineffective political party. Democrats should be ashamed forever.
What absolutely unacceptable weak and pre-defeated fucking trash bullshit.
But what should they have *done*???

Not that. Try not surrendering from a position of strength. Try not making your fascist opposition party's job easier as they exonerate their fascist leader for attempting a coup.
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10 Feb
Fascists prefer lies to truth.

Believing a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate—the only fascist principle.

So they believe lies.
Believing a lie menaces those who care about truth, and it pleases fascists to menace others.

And: a lie gives a fascist something to force others to believe; a way to demonstrate they control not just their own reality, but that of others.

So: fascists prefer to believe lies.
A person who lives according to a truth you've told may have been persuaded by truth, not you.

But to force a person to live according to your lie means you have dominated them

The right to dictate reality is a fascist’s wage.

So: fascists prefer to believe lies.
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9 Feb
Me (emerging from a tank I have driven through your house) now is a time for healing
We could use divisive words like “grandmother” and “crushed” and “dead” but I would rather get down to the work of mending this badly divided house

no I mean I’d rather you get down to that work; I have a tank to drive
It would be a mistake to investigate who drove a tank through who’s house. That sort of rank partisan vindictiveness would only divide our fractured unity and could lead to further tanks.
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