Paul Cantrell
Good one from @tzimmer_history:
“The attack [of calling the Right ‘weird’] hasn’t just been directed at weird mannerisms, rhetoric, or superficial stylistic features. It has been directly tied to policy.
“What’s weird is the Right’s obsession with controlling women’s bodies and subjecting children to full-body inspections before letting them do sports…”
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Paul Cantrell
“The Democratic ‘You are weird’ offensive marks a significant moment. First of all, it crystallizes the key question that has in many ways defined a central fault line in American politics: Who gets to decide what is ‘normal’ — and therefore: acceptable — in America?
“Since the late 1960s, Republicans have successfully weaponized the idea that they represent the norm that should define the nation.”
Paul Cantrell
“Nixon’s ‘silent majority’ was unmistakably white, it was older, it shared conservative or even reactionary sensibilities. …The mainstream political discourse — and far too many Democrats as well — has accepted and perpetuated this assertion of a white conservative Christian norm that is supposedly shared by the majority of Americans for far too long.”
Paul Cantrell
“The significance of ‘These guys are weird’ lies in the fact that it disputes and rejects this claim of ‘real American‘ white Christian conservative ‘normalcy,’ and with it the Right’s justification for minority rule.
“As of this moment, Democrats seem to have abandoned the idea that acquiescence and appeasement could form the basis for an adequate response to the authoritarian threat.”
May it be so, @tzimmer_history. May it be so.
Paul Cantrell
@cam @tzimmer_history
All these forces have always been present, within society and within the party. What’s changed is which are ascendant, who’s cutting through the noise at the moment.
Paul Cantrell
@Red_Shirt_no2
Yeah, that was a good piece too
Red_Shirt_no2
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