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Mar 12 • 10 tweets • 4 min read

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1 - REMEMBER THIS and REPEAT IT often: The GOP is the party of Putin! Go back to the day of the invasion. Trump, the useful idiot, spewed Putin-friendly fuel on the fire. So did Pompeo! Carlson STILL does. Russian state media plays Trump/Pompeo/Carlson ON VIDEO LOOPS!

2 - Thank God for Biden and Blinken! They created solidarity in NATO. And the Ukrainians showed bravery. Putin stumbled and polls showed support for Ukraine. ONLY THEN did the power-crazed GOP change tune. Humanitarian reasons? No! POLLS made them flip TO Ukraine AWAY from Putin.

3 - The GOP cares for NOTHING above power! Oaths? Hah! Constitution? Double hah! Even though they act against Putin now, they know Putin probably isn't going anywhere, and they're thinking they'll wait this out and assuredly welcome his help interfering with US midterm elections!

4 - Whatever happens in Ukraine, America HAS to vanquish its TRUE foe. It's not Putin. It's not Trump. It's the PROPAGANDA APPARATUS of the right wing. It's everywhere. Constant. Relentless. Repetitive. Amplified. Authoritarianism can ONLY grow in an environment of DISINFORMATION

5 - In 2022, American Democracy itself WILL be on the line. Democracy HAS to prevail! How? The truth. The truth is the only archenemy of the lie, and even Goebbels said: "The truth is STRONGER than the lie." So, for Democracy to prevail, enough TRUTH has to prevail! It's math!

6 - In 2020, we spoke TRUTH about the aberrant psychopathology of Trump in our film #UNFIT. It also spoke to his autocratic aspirations which we still see daily. Our film was widely distributed; widely seen. People watch films. It crossed over to moderates. There's still many!

7 - In 2022, before the midterms, we will release #UNTRUTH - the Psychology of TrumpISM and the War for Democracy. It will also make a difference. It will speak truth to ANYONE who watches it. (And when people watch films, they're at home, away from the mob, away from the noise.)

8 - #UNTRUTH must be independent (like #UNFIT), and present truth, experts, and behavioral science over politics and partisanship, entertaining as it informs. If enough truth prevails, democracy will prevail! The more we know about what we really face, the better chance we have.

9 - Here's a link. PLEASE - click it, watch the short trailer at the top, then scroll down and read the truth about Trumpism. It's behavioral psychology. And it's there.
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10 - We'll keep making these threads, because we're all in this together and democracy really IS on the line. Democracy IS the thing most worth fighting for, and we need to be all in.

Thanks for reading.

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1 - We need to take aim at our TRUE FOE! It's not Trump. It's not Putin. But it's a thing we HAVE to defeat! We call it TRUMPISM, because it echoes his malignancies, but it's a much larger thing than TRUMP himself. It keeps metastasizing. It's now a full-on apparatus.

2 - Enablers. Amplifiers. Grifters. Opportunists. Fox News. Talk radio. Right wing podcasts. Performative elected officials. Foreign actors, like Putin. Social networks like Facebook. It's spread like a plague, largely through fear mongering, to millions of our most susceptible.

3 - TRUMPISM emotionalizes, starting with fear. Then it places blame. Then it demonizes who it blames. And this produces hate. Lies become false narratives and then conspiracies. Projections. False equivalencies. We ALL know some people who were manipulated and co-opted.

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1- When we marvel or roll our eyes at Trump supporters, we're often asking the wrong question. Instead of asking: "How can they believe this nonsense?" Better we ask: "What do they get out of being part of Trumpism that makes them so willing to suppress reasoned thought?"

2- There are a lot of answers to the question of what they get out of Trumpism. First and foremost is "the need to belong." They can dislike and defy the same people, share common grievances, do stuff together. It's a brotherhood of purpose. It's easier to "believe" than think.

3 - We're often asked if Trumpism is a cult. The short answer: YES, it is. A cult is defined by an unusual, unwavering interest or belief in a particular personality or goal, where devotion transcends reasoned thought. And when you do that, you transcend science, math, and facts.

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Mar 12

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1 - Thank God for Biden! Because of him there was solidarity in NATO. And Putin stumbled. Then, political calculus by the power-crazed American GOP changed. Not for humanitarian reasons! They read the room, knew their best play was to flip TO Ukraine and AWAY from Putin.

2 - REMEMBER THIS: The GOP cares for NOTHING above power! Their oaths? Hah! They'd sell their own mothers out in a flash. And even though they act against Putin now, all Putin needs to do is wait this out with them, and they'll assuredly welcome his help with US midterm elections

3 - Whatever happens in Ukraine, America HAS to vanquish its TRUE foe. It's not Putin. And it's not Trump. It's PROPAGANDA. Authoritarianism can ONLY grow in an environment of DISINFORMATION. Disinformation and propaganda are everywhere now. It's constant. Relentless. Amplified.

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Mar 10

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1 - Before invading, Putin made assessments. One of them was that America was fractured, heavily divided. Of course, Putin intimately experienced four years of Trump. What a godsend for him! Without his assessment of America's division, this war would NOT be happening!

2 - Reconstructing the USSR? It's a talking point. Putin's real goals extend further. He's been unchecked for so long, they've morphed into obsessions. Putin's three major obsessions: America, democracy, and NATO. His goal? TO DIMINISH THEM. If he can, the rest falls into place.

3 - Putin saw the great arrogant America elect a moron. He's seen the GOP's unbridled lust to regain power. He's seen millions of Americans buy into false narratives and strongman propaganda. OF COURSE he saw potential for American democracy itself to be altered or compromised!

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Mar 9

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1 - Putin assessed before he invaded that America's GOP, where the ends justify the means, would be an ally. He knew Trump the useful idiot, would spew fuel on the fire. And he did. As did Carlson! And Pompeo! Russian media STILL plays Trump/Pompeo on endless video loops!

2 - Putin therefore had every reason to expect the American GOP to help spin his invasion of Ukraine. But Putin made faulty assessments. He underestimated NATO's unity, due - in no small part - to Biden/Blinken. He underestimated Zelensky's leadership. And the Ukrainians' bravery

3 - Because of the solidarity of NATO, Zelensky's leadership and the Ukrainians' bravery, the political calculus by the American GOP changed but NOT for humanitarian reasons! They read the room and knew their best alternative was to now flip to pro-Ukraine and away from Putin.

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1 - Before invading, Putin made assessments. One of them was that America was fractured - or at minimum - divided. Without that assessment this war would NOT be happening! Because America, democracy, and the NATO alliance are Putin's obsessions. His goal: DIMINISH THEM!

2 - For years, Putin saw Trump's fetishization for cruelty, need to win every transaction, AND the GOP's unbridled lust for regaining power. He saw the potential for American democracy itself to be altered or compromised. He saw American citizens buying into strongman propaganda.

3 - What Putin saw was a metastasizing infection. OUR infection. Let's call it TrumpISM. In the world of Trumpism, authoritarians (like him) are admired as powerful, manly, strong. And the strong take what they can. Because winning is everything.

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