Notices tagged with authoritarianism, page 10

It would classify thousands more positions in the #FederalGovernment as #political instead of #neutral #career #CivilServants. And the recent #SCOTUS ruling that made #accountability difficult if a president’s *official acts* break the #law certainly helps w/amassing #power in the #ExecutiveBranch, too.

#immunity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

One way to enforce this idea would be for #Congress to require paid time-&-a-half for anyone who works on Sundays, which #Project2025 calls the default day of Sabbath….

In nearly all chpts, there is a mention of driving out any forces that seek to increase #diversity in the federal #government. And whenever #LGBTQ+ rights are mentioned, it is to say there should be fewer of them.

#Trump #HeritageFoundation #authoritarianism #evangelism #NewApostolicReformation

#law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

#Project2025 is also steeped in the #CultureWars: the doc characterizes so many elements of governance as #woke – the woke #treasury department, woke #weather reports – that the term is rendered #meaningless. It also describes the country as run by “#elites” – though not, apparently, the elites that run heavyweight Washington thinktanks.

#idiocracy #Trump #HeritageFoundation #authoritarianism #evangelism #NewApostolicReformation

#law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

"This election has made me more afraid for the future of the United States than any previous election. Not simply because Trump is running, but because the fact that he’s running—and doing as well as he is—after a disastrous four years in office, reveals a larger part of our population than I had realized is more irrational, self-destructive, uninformed, and harmful to their children’s futures."

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#Trump #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-debate-trump-weirdly-lies-about

"A dark dread of hopelessness creeps in when you see people rallying around a man whose most recent speeches are rambling rants of vindictiveness and threats against his enemies, who’s indicted for undermining democracy, who’s a serial sex offender, whose every statement is a lie that can be easily dismissed with a fact check that his followers will never do."

#Trump #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
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"Even if Trump loses this election, his candidacy has lifted the rock that reveals the zombie-like mob that longs for the overturning of democracy, the exploitation of the marginalized, their children dumbed down in schools, their religion ruling all others, the removal of consumer safeguards, an economy that favors the wealthy while draining the middle class, and so on."

#Trump #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
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"We talk a lot about how authoritarianism might arrive in America someday, but in this sense, it’s already here: The United States has a very large population of people who look for, absorb, and believe anti-American messages wherever they are found, whether on the real Fox News or the fake fox-news.in. Trump was speaking directly to them on Tuesday."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/right-wing-influencers-working-autocracy-inc/679793/?gift=63Gh33MHIm6zIngFjhtdLVXKKbZDtc3PfsUGJbbIt54&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Trump using anti-trans rhetoric to distract f. his waffling on abortion
Repeats baseless claims that schools perform gender-affirming surgeries on children w.o. parents’ consent
https://19thnews.org/2024/09/trump-gender-affirming-care-abortion-claims

#transgender #transphobia #disinformation #WedgeTactics #WomensRights #abortion
#education #ParentalRightsMovement
#conservatism #antiLGBT #ChristianRight #FarRight
#authoritarianism #CultureWars
#Trump #Trump2 #MAGA #GOP #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #EnablingFascism #HeritageFoundation #Project2025

[thread] Canada, education, transphobia
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110569134012529765

[subthread] Canada, transphobia: 1MillionMarch4Children
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111098482732182775
* https://nospaceforhate.net

#transgender #transphobia #disinformation #WedgeTactics #WomensRights
#Canada #Alberta #BritishColumbia #JohnRustad #Manitoba #NewBrunswick #BlaineHiggs #Saskatchewan
#education #ParentalRightsMovement #Policy713 #SOGI
#conservatism #antiLGBT #AcPEDs #ChristianRight #FarRight #theocracy
#authoritarianism #CultureWars

Transphobia tactics
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113045722754370894

Wedge strategies, tactics
Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth / meme
https://persagen.org/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html

[thread] Weaponization of language
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110781650540586495

#transgender #transphobia #disinformation #WedgeTactics #WomensRights
#conservatism #antiLGBT #AcPEDs #ChristianRight #CouncilForNationalPolicy #CNP #FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #FarRight #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #theocracy
#GOP #authoritarianism #CultureWars

#DeSantis is one bitter, crazy fascist.
#Florida #DesantisDestroysFlorida #DeSantis #Votersuppression #liberty #authoritarianism #Fascism

#KamalaHarris strikes back with one of Trump’s favorite insults: #Trump is “#weak” on #ForeignPolicy. He “wants to be a #dictator.” He "told #Putin he can “do whatever the hell he wants” if Trump is reelected.

Trump would not say he wants #Ukraine to win the war with #Russia, & he would not say he has any regrets about #Jan6.

#tyranny #autocracy #authoritarianism #violence #FarRight #NationalSecurity #democracy #law

Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has just released results of a new survey of 5,000+ Americans. The survey finds that four in ten Americans are susceptible to authoritarian appeals, and that number rises to two-thirds of Republicans, white evangelical Protestants, and weekly churchgoers.

Why can many of us listen to Trump's unhinged, dangerous, bloody rants and applaud? 👆🏼

#Trump #Republicans #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
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"Apart from the immediate aftereffects of a Trump loss, many of his followers will remain wedded to the isolationism, xenophobia, racism, and misogyny he has stirred up."

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #racism #misogyny
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"Trump’s base will continue to be a significant force in America. They have remained remarkably loyal and resilient for eight years — consistently 42 to 44 percent of American voters.

If Trump loses, some proportion of them may turn to violence. Even a relatively small portion could threaten social stability."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #racism #misogyny
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-future-of-trumpism-if-he-loses

"In many ways, Trump’s rise is more a manifestation and the result rather than the cause of the Right’s increasingly open and aggressive embrace of authoritarian minority rule. Modern conservatism as a political project arose in the middle decades of the twentieth century as an alliance between different factions who agreed that a fully realized democracy was the enemy."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #racism #misogyny
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-and-the-problem-of-the

"If it feels like half the electorate has gone mad, that’s in part because the press continues to fail to present Trump as he truly is. The average voter probably doesn’t spend much time watching clips of Trump’s rants or reading his unhinged screeds on social media. But they might consume reporting that consistently “sanewashes” his derangement.

~ Stephen Robinson

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #media #sanewashing
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-sanewashing-2024-campaign-nyt-cnn

"They staunchly opposed any attempt to level entrenched hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth, which they saw as the 'natural' and/or divinely ordained order."

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #racism #misogyny
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"The Republican strategy has always been to wear us down and wear us out. To deflate our enthusiasm, to blunt our momentum, to sap our energy, to ratchet up the pressure, and to win through voter depression.

The pressure is the point; the exhaustion is the goal.

We fight back by soldiering forward."

~ Michele Hornish

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #lies #disinformation
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https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/the-pressure-the-exhaustion-red-state

"If he wins, he has stated that he intends to investigate and prosecute Democrats, Harris likely included.

So, the real issue up for debate tonight, personified by the two individuals on stage, is what political system Americans will live under in 2025 and beyond: a democratic system, guided by rule of law, or an autocracy marked by rule by the lawless and a criminal in charge?"

#KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #lies #disinformation
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