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   refuse to cover it as though it were one”. I see a similar shift happening in large swaths of German civil society. In this way too these elections in two pretty-atypical states may become harbingers of what is to come. Very little of it is good."

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     Coco Lowres (cocolowres@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 06:22:25 JST Coco Lowres

     "But what that suggests is that certain sectors of German society would fall into line with uncanny celerity. Not by agreeing with the AfD, of course. But by accepting its framings, by following where it directs our attention. Having lived through the Donald Trump presidency in the US has given many of us a pretty keen sense of this kind of collaboration: one that never abandons the stance of critical distance, but refuses to ignore, dispel or disengage, to say “this is not a thing and we

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     Mr. Bill repeated this.