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   Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 03:42:55 JST Thomas Zimmer

   Creeping Civil War

   In the name of defending “real” America, Trump is waging a violent campaign against the majority of the people who live here; claiming to represent the “will of the people,” the regime is at war with American society as it actually exists.

   My new piece, for @ZEITONLINE (in German):

   https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-06/proteste-donald-trump-usa-spaltung-buergerkrieg

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 03:42:55 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Two things are true at the same time: The regime is encountering a lot more resistance than they know how to handle, they are vulnerable. Yet they are also dangerous, controlling the coercive powers of the state, fueled by a paranoid, conspiratorial siege mentality that pushes them to escalate.

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 14:12:55 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Trump is the leader of a movement convinced that this presidency offers the last chance to prevent the wholesale destruction of “real America” at the hands of foreign invaders and an “enemy within” consisting of a leftist, “globalist” cabal. They want the confrontation. They will rule - or ruin.