A Thousand Cuts
For this week's blog post /video I expand on the idea that the way the Trump-FOX-GOP is most likely to brought down—and the way American fascism most likely to be beaten back—is through a thousand small cuts, each seemingly undramatic.
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For this week's blog post /video I expand on the idea that the way the Trump-FOX-GOP is most likely to brought down—and the way American fascism most likely to be beaten back—is through a thousand small cuts, each seemingly undramatic.
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If you prefer to read, here's an [edited] transcript:
terikanefield.com/a-thousand-cut…
At this point I always think "Nah, I can't also manage a Twitter summary. It will be too long."
Then I do one 🤷♀️
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terikanefield.com/a-thousand-cut…
At this point I always think "Nah, I can't also manage a Twitter summary. It will be too long."
Then I do one 🤷♀️
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Because there’s been a steady drip of evidence of Trump (and Republican) crimes, there's an expectation among some that criminal prosecution will bring them crashing down.
Here I explained why criminal prosecution is unlikely to end the threat.
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Here I explained why criminal prosecution is unlikely to end the threat.
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Some of the cuts:
🔹The criminal prosecution in Georgia
🔹The indictment of the Trump Org
🔹The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack
🔹Trump’s lawyers being sanctioned left and right
🔹The courts, even Trump appointees, rejected his bogus lawsuits
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🔹The criminal prosecution in Georgia
🔹The indictment of the Trump Org
🔹The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack
🔹Trump’s lawyers being sanctioned left and right
🔹The courts, even Trump appointees, rejected his bogus lawsuits
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Some cuts that seem small, like the sanctions of Trump lawyers, are having an effect: Trump's last court filing (trying to keep Congress from getting his taxes) offered a silly defense, but wasn't sanctionable.
I also assume he's having trouble hiring good lawyers ;)
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I also assume he's having trouble hiring good lawyers ;)
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We're in a transition.
Since 1954, the US has been [mostly] trying to transition from a representative democracy dominated by white men with institutions that entirely served white men to a true racially diverse democracy—and we’ve been facing fierce backlash.
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Since 1954, the US has been [mostly] trying to transition from a representative democracy dominated by white men with institutions that entirely served white men to a true racially diverse democracy—and we’ve been facing fierce backlash.
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We've never actually had a fully-functioning racially-diverse democracy.
1954, the year the Supreme Court declared racial segregation unconstitutional, was a turning point.
Before 1954, we had a representational democracy but white men dominated all of our institutions. . .
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1954, the year the Supreme Court declared racial segregation unconstitutional, was a turning point.
Before 1954, we had a representational democracy but white men dominated all of our institutions. . .
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The institutions of democracy worked -- but only for them.
Over the past 60 or so years, we've had to change everything, from police procedures to hiring practices.
The resistance has been fierce.
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Over the past 60 or so years, we've had to change everything, from police procedures to hiring practices.
The resistance has been fierce.
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If you think that at one time we had a lovely, fully functioning multi-racial democracy and now the Trump-Fox-GOP is undermining it, it's easy to think it can all be restored with one fell swoop.
But we not restoring. We're building.
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But we not restoring. We're building.
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So basically, in the video (and blog post), I offer an overview of how we are dismantling the roadblocks in our way, and discrediting the resistance, and making it a little harder for the enemies of a multi-racial democracy to cripple our efforts.
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Aside: I always give 1954 as the turning point because that's the year of Brown v. Board of Education, but the struggle has been going on since the start of the nation.
A lot of hard work from people like Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston brought us to Brown v. Board.
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A lot of hard work from people like Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston brought us to Brown v. Board.
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