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11 Jun, 17 tweets, 4 min read
Not aware of studies, but I've written/talked about (Lincoln Project podcast) the "proxy phenomenon":

A transition from people acting as a proxy in an ideological war....to ideology becoming a proxy in those people's personal wars with ideological/political/personal enemies…1/
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.....with the ideology increasingly becoming fluid. 3/
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We’ve seen this repeatedly during the Trump era, where people not only wage personal wars, but internalize Trump’s pathological persecution/grievance complexes, and therefore become radicalized in their compulsion to wage war in Trump’s name/honor. 6/
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The January 6th insurrection in was an expansion of online hate/attacks (Parler/radical chatrooms/Trump's own tweets) to offline reality that may have resulted in violence (“hang Mike Pence” chants) against Pence/Romney/congressional Democrats....8/
As this thread analyzes, the threat of another insurrection is still very real......9/
The pipe bomb-mailing Trump super fan, Cesar Sayok, is another example. 9/nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Other relevant threads: 10/
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Podcast where I discuss the Proxy war concept: 14/

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13 Jun
An addiction model may actually explain tribalism, confirmation bias, and even conspiracy theories/Qanon. Let’s unpack….

Several years ago I started observing the parallels between addiction and political tribalism as marriages/friendships/families imploded over politics….1/
Specifically, I started noticing the parallels between the effect that addiction has on relationships when those relationships (interventions) threaten the continuation of the addictive behavior/activity.

Basically,….2/
…when confronted with a threat to the addiction, the addict will often cut the loved one out of their life, rather than cut out the addictive behavior.

This has occurred countless times over the last 5 years as people have cut family/friends out of their lives over politics. 3/
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10 Jun
Family of insurrectionist wants to investigate the officer who was performing his duty to prevent the insurrection from happening.

Alternative option?

Investigate how/why deceased insurrectionist was incited into actions that led to her death:
Family of insurrectionist wants to investigate the officer who was performing his duty to prevent the insurrection from happening.

Alternative option?

Investigate how/why deceased insurrectionist was incited into actions that led to her death:
Thread, "Pathologically Unrealistic Expectations" (1.0), written election morning, and laying out what would transpire, exactly as it has:
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9 Jun
Thread on "pathologically unrealistic expectations":
Thread on "pathologically unrealistic expectations":
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8 Jun
"The leaders of the Democratic Party no longer believe in democracy, & they definitely don't plan to lose another election..."

Incessant projection. This literally describes the Republican Party from the Big Lie...to Jan. 6th....to voter suppression laws.

This is one of...1/
...Carlson's go to moves: use actions the Right is engaging in to create a false equivalency...which paints the Right as the "victims"....and then retroactively "justifies" the Right's initial egregious actions.

Basically it's "pre-emptive retaliation": 2/
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6 Jun
In Nov., Trump pushed election lies.

2 months later, the insurrection/first non-peaceful transition of power in U.S. history occurred.

Aside from August being 2 months away, there’s another dangerous parallel:

"Pathologically unrealistic expectations"

On election morning…1/
...I laid out a road map describing how Trump would manipulate/gaslight the election results to incite his base. Basically, it included
1.Create pathologically unrealistic expectations
2.Lie about the results
3.Incite people to react violently

...2/
….3/…..
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5 Jun
Some of the factors include power and fear. A few relevant threads, first on power and "Authoritarian Followers": 1/
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