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19 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Just need to remind everyone the growing connection between the American Right and Putinism isn’t just about isolated elections.

It’s about white identity power and the creation of a criminal illiberal democracy.

It’s not just Trump and Fox. It’s their think tanks, culture.
What the Right sees in Russia is a white-identity society that crushes opposition, clothes itself in weaponized nostalgia, runs rigged elections that provide a veneer of democracy without the risk, and allow the wealthy and powerful full, oppressive control.
Even Koch and his constellation of think tanks and organizations have moved toward embracing Russia, and it’s about removing democracy as an impediment and making this exploitative order secure and expediting profit and power.
The GOP has for years borrowed the style of Putin, the lack of substance aided by hot button cultural issues and deflected anger through conspiracy theories, while partnering with white supremacist paramilitary groups mirroring the ones in Russia.
This isn’t about election interference, though that was part of mutual aid and corruption. It’s white identity illiberal democracy spreading in the face of challenges to its domination.

It’s not a coincidence. It’s a mirror.

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20 Mar
Totally normal and not at all unwell or racist society we’ve got going here.

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I tell you, when your country is full of people threatening students who didn’t win a game or trafficking conspiracy theories because a comic book movie gets shelved or released by accident, that’s when you know things are going greeeeeeeat.
For what it’s worth, there’s a direct line between threatening fans, fascists attempting a coup, mass shooters, and these poisonous conspiracy theories.

They demand reality to conform to their every wish and they’re willing to hurt people to make it so.

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16 Mar
Again. Please. Republicans operate as trolls. They post outrageous, infuriating opinions that have no purpose other than to bait you into responding and increasing their reach, their fundraising, and their stature among the Right Wing media.

Choose not to take the bait.
These social media and media systems rely on commodifying outrage. It’s poisonous to society but hard to reject. The GOP isn’t a party, it’s a public front fir the wealthy and powerful that exists through artificial, bad faith provocations. Don’t fall into their traps.
There are plenty of us monitoring the dangerous aspects of the Right, their signaling to extremists, their attempts to radicalize. You don’t have to engage with these bad faith, attention-seeking troll jobs. They only increase their reach and power. We can do better.
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14 Mar
When a president doesn't create multiple crises or scandals a day the pundits will go ahead and try and create their own scandals in the absence.

Remember this when piecing together the reasons the former president was able to gain traction and win office.
The political ecosystem is largely an entertainment complex that runs on scandal, spectacle, insider/specialized knowledge commodified, and profit off palace intrigue.

It's a TV show, a brand, a franchise, and it will find a way to produce.
Reagan gifted the political media ready-made segments with pomp, circumstance, and network-friendly optics.

Trump gifted them breathless segments and inches on his corruption, offensiveness, cruelty, and continual crisis. When they told you he was good for business they meant it
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11 Mar
You can’t organize Republican beliefs logically because they are inherently illogical. This isn’t an ideology, it’s a reactionary, panicked defense of white patriarchal supremacy and entrenched power. It is whatever the moment needs it to be and will find any possible outlet.
The old mythologies of exceptionalism, meritocracy, and nationalism are failing, leaving Republicans to embody a teeth-gnashing denial of that fact coupled with whatever cultural or political cudgel might help. They’re A-B testing cudgels every single day in desperation.
Again, there is no Republican plan fir the future beyond a desperate push to force us backward. None of this is logical or consistent, it’s trying to find a means to get back to segregation and protected capital and however it gets there will do.
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10 Mar
As the wealthy and powerful continue to undermine government and profit off inequality, their only plans for the future and our crises are utopian promises that bypass people altogether and erase the gains of liberal democracy.

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We have to recognize that developing technologies, rampant consumerism, and the rise of misinformation for profit are leading to a future where human rights and democracy might be done away with.

This is a massive, massive threat, and we have to fight against it.
Increasingly, corporations and Big Tech look at the threats of rising fascism and collapsing societies as only being solvable by moving beyond politics, voting, representative government, and bypassing humanity altogether.

It’s oppressive utopian thinking.
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10 Mar
The Republican Party isn’t concerned with earning votes, broadening its appeal, passing legislation to help people, and they’re not worried about how increasingly revolting they are to Americans.

They’re focused on eliminating the vote of the people who reject them.
It doesn’t matter that the Relief Bill is overwhelmingly, jaw-droppingly popular, or that the Republican base is dwindling as they refuse to govern in favor of attention stunts designed to produce cringey faux-outrage.

The point is to produce a radicalized minority ruling class.
People still want to treat the GOP like it’s a party. It’s not. It’s a fascistic, antidemocratic movement that serves as the public face and sabotaging body of the white, wealthy, and powerful who want to dismantle government and roll back rights.

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