What replaces democracy for Trumps’ Nationalist Autocratic movement is a perverse commitment to an ideology of identity rooted in racial animus, blood and soil nationalism, and a delusion of shared collective victimization at the hands of a rapacious majority of others. 1/
This is why so many of these people are cheering against the US Olympic Team. They hate our multi-racial, muti-ethnic pluralistic democracy. They look at the athletes, ponder their achievements, their excellence, greatness and all of the qualities of devotion and instead of
finding inspiration, they seethe with resentment. In their eyes, their tribe has been diminished again. Each success by an other, is a defeat to them and a refutation of their greatest delusion; the myth of their stolen greatness. For them the nation is their tribe and they
root for the tribe with the fanaticism of jingoists, not to win, but to revel together as a community, rooting for the only outcome they have ever experienced and shared; failure. They reject excellence because it shames them. They reject grit because they lack it. They turn from
victory because they will never know it. Nationalism and Autocracy are the faith of losers. There is an alchemy of sorts that lights these movements. Losers and extremists merge with opportunists and cynics to take power. They find their way to a demagogue who can bind them
in a marriage knotted by a glue of lies, ambitions, greed and resentments. Money is always attracted to the cause of self interest and before long the siren song of self enrichment attracts a Stephen Schwarzmann, rich enough to spend $40 million birthing a 21st Century Bund, and
callous enough to be indifferent to the consequences. Autocrats and Nationalists talk about freedom but do so with forked tongues. Seeing the world through the eyes of the wolf is a valuable perspective when pondering the people booing Team USA.
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“What are the chances that Kevin McCarthy’s current supporters will become exhausted of voting for him as his vote count attrits ballot by ballot by ballot? Answer: extremely high.”
“How many of the 45 freshman Republican members are prepared to sit on the House floor waiting to be sworn in for days, weeks and months? Answer: not many.”
I understand the political point here but I think it’s time to take some extremists off the table forever politically. Trump is on the edge of indictment and charging uphill at DeSantis who may or may not be able to hold the top.
2/ The loony tunes in the Freedom Caucus know they won’t have the votes to elect Jim Jordan. They are just extorting @GOPLeader and his thug lobbyist @JeffMillerCA2TX who threatened the @USChamber and demanded the firing of CEO Suzanne Clark. They want concessions and control.
3/ @GOPLeader will give it to them and set up the conditions for more national vandalism. Kevin McCarthy is utterly unfit to hold a US Constitutional office and be in the line of immediate succession to the Presidency.
@JeffMillerCA2TX is the 2020’s version of Manafort, Davis, Stone and Abramoff in Washington DC. He is protected by the DC access media like a white rhino on an African game preserve. @politico was celebrating him on election eve. This is how it works. Immunity for tips.
2/ @JeffMillerCA2TX was one of Trump’s biggest bundlers and is @GOPLeader best friend. When @GOPLeader’s speaker campaign was collapsing on the eve of the @SpeakerRyan era I was asked to meet @GOPLeader in a Denver hotel to help save his faltering bid. It was too late.
3/ @GOPLeader had a congressional relations problem that couldn’t go away. @JeffMillerCA2TX is McCarthy’s lobbyist thug who routinely tells Members how to vote. It’s an open secret that would have been front page news ten years ago. Today, he’s in business with the people who
Why have you refused to endorse @MikeLeeforUtah. He is a colleague and fellow Republican?
The answer is:
@MittRomney is a man of principle. he knows Lee is unfit because Lee tried to overthrow the US Government. He will not support him. Good.
2/ How did @MittRomney arrive at his current position of neutrality between a seditious US Senator @MikeLeeforUtah and an American Hero and Patriot @EvanMcMullin?
How important is magic letter R to @MittRomney? Would he remain neutral if @HerschelWalker were the R Utah nominee?
3/ Assuming @MittRomney would not remain neutral in a contest between @EvanMcMullin and @HerschelWalker can Mitt explain the difference between Walker and Lee besides all of the abortions? What is it? Literacy? Can we know?
2/ Does Ohio want to elect a weirdo to be in the US Senate? It doesn’t
When a candidate like @JDVance1 is closing his campaign saying @TimRyan is going to steal the children and do sex changes on them it usually means the candidate like @JDVance1 is losing. JD=Fake Charity
3/ I wanted to personally vouch for @TimRyan who knows my kids. I just asked them if they are worried he is going to kidnap them and do sex change surgery on them like @JDVance1 said. They aren’t worried at all. They said @JDVance1 is a weirdo and asked if they would still call
.@MichaelDell. This quote is from a TR speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne. It was titled Citizenship in a Republic. @elonmusk doesn’t measure up. At all.
This is the famous quote from a deep speech. You are applying it in a fortune cookie manner to a current event. Bad take
2/ Elon is in business with the Chinese and Saudi’s to undermine the American way of life. That is who owns this platform. This platform @Twitter can be used for the cause of democracy insurgency aimed at undermining the stability of its assaulters starting with @elonmusk
3/ @twitter isn’t the town square. It’s a cesspool. It is a platform of division and hate. It should be used to undermine the Saudi and Chinese regimes and expose their American agents. The platform is the weakness. The defense of democracy requires toughness and conviction.