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   Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:31 JST Thomas Zimmer

   Debating whether or not Republicans *really* want to erect a cruel regime of merciless white patriarchal dominance is futile. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is the state level: Wherever they are in charge, they are embracing an authoritarian vision of society. (Thread!)

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:21 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Too many moderates, centrists, and liberals have bought into the idea that conservatives are just – and at least somewhat justifiably – pushing back against certain “excesses” of “woke” leftism, and that they will stop once those excesses are kept in check. That’s nonsense. 11/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:22 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Republican-led states and communities undermine democracy and entrench white reactionary rule, with or without the support of a majority of voters; the Supreme Court says: Keep going! All Republicans in Congress have to do is block any national counter-legislation. 10/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:23 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Ideally, the Supreme Court would step in and put a stop to the escalating attempts to undermine democracy and roll back civil rights. But the conservative majority on the Court is doing the opposite, acting instead as the spearhead of the reactionary counter-mobilization. 9/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:24 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     This is not the doing of nihilists and chaos agents. It is the work of committed ideologues, fully determined to impose their reactionary vision of what America should be on as many people as possible and to punish those who dare to deviate and dissent. 8/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:25 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     More news from just the past 48 hours.

     Wisconsin. Nebraska. Michigan. North Dakota.

     One political project. A comprehensive reactionary offensive. Everywhere, all the time. 7/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:26 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Conservatives are pursuing a deeply anti-democratic, anti-liberal, anti-pluralistic vision for American society, and the Right has a clear strategy for how to impose it on the country against majority will. They are fully committed to this reactionary political project. 6/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:27 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Let’s be clear: The country is the United States of America, and it is the twentieth century, any time before the 1960s rights revolution - that’s the vision.

     Mercilessly restore and entrench traditional hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth - that’s the project. 5/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:28 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     It’s really hard to keep track of everything that’s happening, on so many levels, in so many states, so many communities, all at the same time.

     But it’s all one big story: A multi-level reactionary counter-mobilization against egalitarian multiracial, pluralistic democracy. 4/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:29 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Ban abortion, control women; criminalize LGBTQ people.
      
     Install an authoritarian white nationalist education system, ban dissent.
      
     Restrict voting rights, purge election commissions, criminalize protest.
      
     These are not disparate actions - it’s one political project. 3/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 08:06:30 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     We discussed this on today’s episode of Is This Democracy: The idea that Republicans are just nihilists who want to burn the system down is not plausible because wherever and whenever they can, they pursue a specific vision to which they are fully committed. 2/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-republican-extremism-maga-nihilism-and-the-rise/id1652741954?i=1000594264018

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:35:05 JST Nicole Parsons

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     Daily Kos maintains a list of Republicans doing what they accuse others of doing. It's 39 pages long.

     Old saying "When you're pointing the finger of accusation at someone else, the remaining fingers are pointed at yourself."

     https://m.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook

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     Neal Rauhauser (nealr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:35:06 JST Neal Rauhauser

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     Every single vocal homophobic Republican is doing so not out of concern for society, it's public theater as they battle their own demons.

     How many times, to the nearest dozen, have we seen this play out in the past couple decades?

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:35:07 JST Nicole Parsons

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     The Republicans seem to have a high tolerance for hypocrisy within their in-group, and an intolerant stance for the exact same conduct for people outside their groups.

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     Neal Rauhauser (nealr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:35:08 JST Neal Rauhauser

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     Closeted Boomers who've married and had children always have a rough time coming to terms with reality.

     I would normally just wish them well, but given the egregious nationwide harm he did I'm surprised he's not doing public penance. He was alive, divorced, and seemingly practicing low key law last time I looked.

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     Neal Rauhauser (nealr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:35:09 JST Neal Rauhauser

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     Henderson, a father of eight who busied himself drafting homophobic legislation for Jay Sekulow's ACLJ, was going by the name "Chip" as he was plying two seventeen year olds with drugs and alcohol in exchange for the occasional spit roasting.

     I've got a couple videos, one of the boys getting his actual name off his vehicle registration, and another with him, them, and the vehicle's plate.

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:35:10 JST Nicole Parsons

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     James M. Henderson's name is on every piece of regressive legal work the GOP did.

     https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-henderson-aclj-attorney-fired-gay-younger-men_n_1952224

     https://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2012/09/has-drug-and-sex-scandal-caused-ouster.html?m=1

     https://www.christianpost.com/news/aclj-confirms-dismissing-attorney-accused-of-affairs-with-young-gay-men.html

     https://www.businessinsider.com/pat-robertson-lawyer-james-henderson-fired-for-being-gay-2012-10

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     Neal Rauhauser (nealr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:35:11 JST Neal Rauhauser

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     American Legislative Exchange Council.

     That crap used to get drafted by an attorney at ACLJ named James M. Henderson. They ghosted him when he got caught bartering alcohol/drugs to a couple of underage boys in exchange for sex.

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 22:07:56 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     That’s what the term “backlash” suggests, and why we need to be skeptical about a “backlash” narrative that tends to put the agency solely with traditionally marginalized groups - who are therefore ultimately at fault for causing an inevitable reaction. 12/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 22:08:25 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     What we are up against is an escalating counter-mobilization: Reactionaries are actively mobilizing, they are deliberately pursuing a political project. They have agency – and therefore should be held accountable for the policies they support. 13/ https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/democracy-faces-a-reactionary-counter

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 22:08:25 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     At the heart of the reactionary project is the refusal of resentful people to compromise with the vision of egalitarian multiracial pluralism, with anyone who deviates from their idea of the natural/divinely ordained white patriarchal order, because they feel entitled to dominate all spheres of life. 14/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 22:08:25 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     These people won’t stop because they have an epiphany that they shouldn’t go *that* far. They will either *be stopped* - or install a system in which only they and those who reflect their image back at them are entitled to rule and are recognized as equal. /end

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 22:09:26 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     Ideally, the Supreme Court would step in and put a stop to the escalating attempts to undermine democracy and roll back civil rights. But the conservative majority on the Court is doing the opposite, acting instead as the spearhead of the reactionary counter-mobilization@tzimmer_history I'm reading this in July 2024, and ... yeah.