William Lindsey :toad:
"MEASLES, MISINFORMATION, a 'vigorous spanking' of misogyny—whether women like it or not—a violent nine-gun fantasy for political enemies, crudeness, petty insults, and cronyism.
Pick your perversion, America. His final hours of campaigning show Donald Trump is betting enough of us want this."
~ A.B. Stoddard
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-thinks-america-wants-his-perversions-election-2024
William Lindsey :toad:
As Noah Berlatsky explains cogently this morning, "White supremacy creates fools." So many people are willing to swallow Trump, an obvious fool, because they have succeeded in fooling themselves already by swallowing great gobs of white supremacist ideology, which can control our thinking only if we believe lies and foolishness about race and superiority based on pigmentation.
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/white-supremacy-leads-people-to-swallow
William Lindsey :toad:
"Blowing his mic stand is not even the thousandth most repugnant thing Trump has done, but it's notable given that his crowd is a well-scrubbed gang of mostly well-off white christian supremacists who have spent the last decade demanding the exclusion and persecution and death of (among others) trans people and other queer people."
~ A.R. Moxon
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/9
William Lindsey :toad:
"What we have been seeing within many Christian circles and the Republican Party isn’t classic conservatism at all. It is fascism."
~ Benjamin Cremer
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
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https://benjamin-cremer.ck.page/posts/following-jesus-through-a-tumultuous-election
William Lindsey :toad:
"People laughed at first, and thought his immediate surge in the polls was a fluke, but they were wrong: his support stayed high, as he both reflected and shaped the party’s base by humiliating GOP leaders to establish dominance over them. ...
For Trump personally, the stakes in 2024 have never been higher. The risks he’s taken to get here have crossed so many legal boundaries (forget about ethical lines, come on) as to make this quite existential for him."
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump’s power comes from us. Bit by bit, Americans have absorbed the Trump assault and adapted, as humans do. And nine years after he took our political system hostage, Trump now has faith that, for enough of us, his id is our id; that we can tolerate the spectacle and may even like it."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/4
William Lindsey :toad:
"One way of thinking about the time since Donald Trump descended on a golden escalator into American political life is to conceptualize it as a spree. Trump has been gambling since 2015; he entered the GOP primary that year as a demagogic wildcard."
~ Josh Kovensky
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
/5
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekender/outlaws-on-the-verge-of-power
William Lindsey :toad:
"With two impeachments, thirty-four felony convictions, and four criminal indictments, Trump’s approval has grown, and he has new converts among the young and nonwhite, union members, and Jewish Americans.
He is well positioned to win. And he trusts that voters want him, and all his grievance and vengeance, corruption and lies—that they are not asking for a competent government that can respond to crises or solve problems."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
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William Lindsey :toad:
"We should be clear about what’s happening down the home stretch of the campaign: These are choices Trump is making. He knows how to behave well enough when he wants to and he has chosen not to. He is behaving this way because he feels he can, because he believes it works, because it has worked.
TRUMP IS MORE POPULAR HAVING TRIED to steal an election and having incited an insurrection."
#Trump #fascism #racism #misogyny #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
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