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Oct 21 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
That is quite a collection of people singled out for termination by “the angel of death” at this Mike Flynn/Roger Stone event.
An initial question I have is what the people of Georgia will do without either Brian Kemp or Stacey Abrams as their governor.
John Roberts, Lindsay Graham, Chris Mathews, and Joe Biden too. Call me strange, but it seems kinda inappropriate to have a “hit list for God” projected on a screen at a de facto GOP campaign event for PA Governor candidate Mastriano.
Here's the thing about that seemingly random collection of people. If you consume a lot of right wing media, you know the reason (in great detail) why every single person is there. If you don't (like 95% of most Americans), this makes zero sense.
The US far right has always spoken to itself in a largely private language that was largely inaccessible or indecipherable to those not initiated into it. This is why the "red pill" metaphor is so compelling to them, it involves embracing a largely alternative reality.
I continue to hold the apparently heretical position that the separation of church and state was a good idea.
Just keep this between you and me ok, but the last time I spoke with God, they told me that Julie Green is just making stuff up that she thinks her audience wants to hear because that's her business model.
Just in case you're inclined to consider this a "fringe" event, the former President's son is there and he placed a call to his father, the current de facto leader of the Republican Party, while on stage.
When Flynn's Christian Nationalist/election denialist roadshow came through Salem, Oregon back in April, Eric Trump was also one of the people who rolled out of the clown car.
This would be a good time to recall that the granddaddy of "Christian Nationalism" was Gerald LK Smith, one of the most hateful antisemites and racists of the 20th century. "Atheistic globalists" you say, hmmmmm.
A thread on the very troubling history behind the term "Christian Nationalism."

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Oct 23
We're just so polarized today. On one side are people who believe that if they don't win, then the election was stolen from them & they are entitled to engage in armed violence to "take back their country." On the other side are people who are trying to win by getting more votes.
We went to this Ohio diner to speak to Steve--holding an AR-15, dressed in camo, and wearing a tactical vest for his day of poll watching--and Joe, wearing a "Warren for President" button and walking shoes for his day of door knocking--to see if we could find some middle ground.
As Steve flicked the safety on his gun off and on, trying to make eye contact with Joe, we noticed that Joe seemed nervous & unwilling to engage Steve in direct and open conversation. The left will need to learn how to speak to people like Steve if they ever want to win in Ohio.
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Oct 23
Facebook has gotten quite good at serving up primo bait for a historian of early America and modern US conservatism like me lately. ImageImageImageImage
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Seems like someone who is eminently qualified to write a book on the founding era, and not all someone who would selectively cherry-pick quotes that with his contemporary conservative politics! As an executive leader and ...
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Oct 22
On June 1, 1941, Kansas preacher Gerald Winrod (colloquially known as the "Jayhawk Nazi" for his fascist proclivities) began a five day lecture series in Portland, Oregon. Note how the ad describes him, "defender of the faith and Christian Statesman." Image
Directly above that ad was an announcement for a competing lecture on the "Mix-Up in Europe" at the "Anglo-Saxon Federation," an antisemitic, white nationalist organization. Image
Here's a longer thread on that Anglo-Saxon organization (a group we'd identify as Christian Nationalist or Christian Identity today) in Portland. They were active into the 1960s.
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Oct 22
Interesting thread on our current epidemic of right wing brain worms.
I'm going to share a story with a very different valence that was told to me by people who'd known Tucker and his family socially for over a decade. Their claim was that Tuck was mostly playing a role because the non-Fox money was so good...book deals, speaking gigs, etc.
I don't think these folks were lying to protect Tuck. This was their honest interpretation based on having known him. Their basic sense was "who would turn down tens of millions of dollars for just spouting some wacky shit that no one in their right mind really believes?"
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Oct 21
Conservatives have long argued (erroneously) that the biggest threat to individual liberty is majority rule democracy. This is an excellent, brief history of the damage minority rule has done to the US over the year.
nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opi…
A point I'd add is that the far right has often resolved this problem for itself by simply believing that its minoritarian preferences are ackshually shared by the majority of Americans. The thickening walls of the right wing media echo chamber have only made that problem worse.
In this 2010 poll, for example, 84% of Tea Party supporters thought their views reflected the opinions of their fellow Americans, while only 25% of actual Americans thought that was the case.
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Oct 21
In 1979 there was an unsuccessful push for an Amendment to secure representation in the House and Senate for DC. Pat Buchanan wrote a pretty racist op-ed opposing it, calling it "an affirmative action program to get blacks in the Senate."
Oregon was one of the states that ratified the Amendment in 1979. On the day it was going to be debated someone circulated copies of a white supremacist newspaper called The Thunderbolt throughout the state capitol building in Salem.
One person who attended that Judiciary hearing to argue against the DC Amendment was Walter Huss, the chairman of the Oregon Republican Party who just happened to have longstanding ties to the National States Rights Party, the publisher of The Thunderbolt.
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