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Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 06:57:16 JST Alfie Kohn

Another superb piece by Adam Serwer, this one explaining how Republicans have gone "from condemning leaders who threaten their own citizens to becoming sycophants for one": https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-military-force-protests/683198/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8Cdfor12GRVOUysWoqfjmig&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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1. The math here doesn’t take much effort. In the view of these officials and commentators, California (and, by extension, America) has been ruined by immigration from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, which is what makes mass deportation and the use of American military force against their own people necessary. As it happens, this coincides rather neatly with Millers expressed view that the repeal of racist restrictions on immigration in the 1960s destroyed the country. Both inside and outside the administration, the consensus of prominent Trumpists is that if you are not white, you are a threat to Western civilization. This is how they rationalize Trump failing the tyrant test—the threat of military force is being made against people the administration and its propagandists want you to see as not truly American. This is how a tyrant thinks. Every dictator who has ever cracked down on political opposition has done so by rendering them internal foreigners in thetoric and deed, invaders of the body politic who can justly be crushed like insects. Those serving in uniform, military or civilian, should ask themselves whether becoming a tyrant’s instrument against their own communities is what they had in mind when they signed up.
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  The Tyrant Test
  
  from Adam Serwer
  
  A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.

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