Just so everyone's clear, widespread corruption, abuse, and genocidal tactics, including spying on political enemies and withholding life-saving resources from states helmed by opposing political parties, has been completely and utterly normalized.

This is how it works.
There's hardly a crime, abuse, or murderous tactic that could come out now from the Trump Administration's time in power that would barely garner much attention.

It was so vast, so cruel, so everpresent, that it has just become something to expect and endure.
So many people are in such a rush to live in the delusion that Trump was an aberration and that we’re safe and beyond that stain of a moment that they’re actively stunting any engagement with or investigation of the abuses and cruelties that ensure more abuses and cruelties.
Again, I know the Trump years exhausted people. But that doesn’t mean we can ignore them or the fact that they’re still affecting us, that corruption and fascism are festering and growing, becoming more dangerous by the day. This denial is deadly and only ensures their success.

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11 Jun
Honestly, I don't know how to stress this enough.

The GOP's assault on education and history is a fascist attack based in Nazi ideology and is obsessed with power, control, and the protection of murderous white supremacy.

We're in incredible danger.

1/

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-war-over…
Yesterday, as a political measure, the state of Florida, pushed by the GOP, banned the teaching of "critical race theory," or the investigation of systems of power, racism, and oppression.

This isn't innocuous. It is a literal replaying of Nazi totalitarianism.

2/
Underneath all of it is the concept of "Cultural Marxism," or the idea that there is a secret conspiracy by communists, Jews, and liberal traitors, to destroy the culture of the country and unseat systems of power.

It is paranoid, fascist, and can be murderous.

3/
Read 25 tweets
7 Jun
The Right has worked to destroy liberal democracy and restore hereditary hierarchy.

The wealthy are obsessed with bypassing politics as an impediment to profit.

In these pursuits, they’ve worked together. Right now we’re watching them put us in check.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-intentio…
And this is not just limited to Republicans. Democrats and Republicans have enjoyed an economic, hypercapitalistic consensus for decades because certain Democrats believed markets would lead to more freedom and dignity.

We’re watching the collapse of that philosophy.
The belief remains, with certain political leaders, that this moment of crisis will solve itself. This is a delusional faith in this system, which is predicated and built explicitly on white supremacy and cruel exploitation. It was always heading here.
Read 4 tweets
5 Jun
Some thoughts on the G7 news and the growing, desperate war between nations and corporations over which will come to be the defining body in human civilization.

It’s a major moment. The question is whether it’s too little, too late.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/throwing-roc…
Decades of hypercapitalism, spurred by people like Reagan, has created a multinational corporation that feeds off nations, coopts their political and social structures, and drowns the people in inhuman labor, austerity, and exploitation.
Corporate dominance is one of the major reasons we’re in this crisis, why we’re suffering, why our democratic institutions are under dire threat. The redistribution of wealth from the bottom up pushed by Reagan has come to define this new second Gilded Age.
Read 6 tweets
30 May
The Right isn’t outraged by any of this garbage. It’s testing narratives and attack lines, throwing things at the wall.

To understand any of this we have to recognize this is a movement without principle or purpose beyond pursuing power.
Every single day there’s a new thing the Right tried to put over as a scandal or evidence of cancel culture or whatever.

It isn’t real. It’s a scam, a strategy. Stop treating it like anything else. Their incoherence is testament to the artificiality of all of this.
If we’re even going to start untangling ourselves from this crisis it has to start by refusing to engage with or accept any of the Right’s manipulative/spectacle garbage and see it for the tactic that it is.

This is a fascist, antidemocratic movement. That’s the heart of it.
Read 4 tweets
29 May
Life’s too short and the crisis is too severe to spend even a second listening to Republicans trying to preserve their reputations and pretend their poisonous ambitions didn’t lay the groundwork for decades for this principle-less, fascistic movement.
Reject this garbage that the GOP didn’t hand over every principle besides white supremacy and destructive greed when going after racists and the cruel in order to solidify prejudice systems and promote hypercapitalism.
People still want to get all misty-eyed about Ronald Reagan on a horse and pretend like he wasn’t Trump 1.0 or that the principles they assign him were even remotely real.

It’s always been about greed and profit and ambition and we’re only watching it evolve.
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28 May
When a majority of your members and voters believe in wild, racist conspiracy theories that have been weaponized to dismantle democracy, you're not a political party.

There is no GOP. There is a white supremacist fascist movement.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/there-is-no-…
People want to live in denial of what's actually happening, or continue profiting off of it, but the numbers we're seeing, the rhetoric that's being used, the violence and antidemocratic actions, the attempted coups, this isn't just a moment or a strategy.

It's fascism.
And none of this is going to get any better until people start calling it what it is and treating it like a fascist movement.

There's no "working with" these people. There's no magic word. No waiting on the next election cycle.

This is a full-scale crisis.
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