Notices tagged with fascism, page 3

"Just like today, this analysis misses the forest for the trees. Twice already, more or less half of American voters have elected a guy who promises to overthrow the liberal world order — to do away with democratic institutions, values, and norms, trample on human rights, blow up the economy — and to bend the nation, and the world, to his will."

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"In a NORC survey in 2017 that focused on questions related to American identity, almost half of respondents said that illegal immigration amounted to a threat to 'the American way of life.' Seventy-one percent of respondents to that poll said the United States was 'losing its national identity.'

This unease extends to other dimensions, such as religion and sexuality."

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"Overall, 52 percent of respondents to a poll last year by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution thought that America’s best days are behind it. Fifty-five percent, including three quarters of Republicans, said the country’s way of life has mostly changed for the worse since the 1950s.

Altogether, three-fourths of Americans today believe the United States is headed in the wrong direction."

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"They wanted the 'old stability,' the patriarchy that has run the country for generations. In many ways, that's what’s at the heart of the conservative coalition. It's not a rejection of the established order; it's an embrace of it."

Voters may be in for a shock, though, when they see what they ACTUALLY get:

"The Trump presidency isn’t a pick-your-adventure experience, where you can get some parts of Trump’s plan, but not all of it."

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"Voters who ignored the facts about the economy and used them as an excuse to vote for Trump weren’t people who wanted a change. They were people who, actually, didn’t want any change at all. They didn't like new policies advanced by the Biden-Harris administration, a more inclusive vision of America where traditionally marginalized people had equal opportunity. They didn’t want a new generation of leadership."

~ Joyce Vance

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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/giving-up-is-unforgivable

“If Donald Trump says tariffs work, tariffs work. Because Donald Trump is really never wrong. Think about it. He is never wrong.”

~ Texas Rep. Troy Nehls (R)

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https://maxburns.substack.com/p/can-donald-trump-do-that

As Wajahat Ali points out, we're being told that "Americans voted for Republicans because they were promised a better economy, cheaper eggs, security, and the romanticized promise of becoming 'great again.”'

Yet, we immediately see them as victors roll out stepped-up attacks on trans people.

How do those attacks address the price of eggs? And what did Americans who say it's all about eggs REALLY want when they voted for Trump?

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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-will-bullying-trans-people-get

"Christian Reconstructionism is now at the edge of power in the United States, and the attitude of the relevant people towards the female body and indeed towards rape is an essential element of what is happening and what is likely to happen. Both-sidesism, prudery, and euphemisms are keeping much of the media from bringing this story together in time."

~ Timothy Snyder

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https://snyder.substack.com/p/men-and-women-perform

"Trump’s cabinet appointments are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance. … Wrecking the government is not only Trump’s technique for gaining submission and compliance, but is his ultimate purpose."

~ Sidney Blumenthal

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/trump-cabinet-picks-contempt-rage-vengeance

AI search can destroy civil society.

It is a weapon for the rich to control and divide populations by creating an unreliable and false reality that divides and conquers.

#AI #technology #politics #fascism #google #miscrosoft #WallStreet

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-11-20-ai-information-corrosion/

House Speaker Mike Johnson Announces Transgender Bathroom Ban - On Trans Day of Remembrance
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/congress-trans-bathroom-ban-johnson-mace

* he & Nancy Mace tag team their transphobia ahead of arrival of 1st openly trans member of Congress Sarah McBride

Mike Johnson responds to election of trans lawmaker by banning her f. Capitol bathrooms
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/mike-johnson-responds-to-of-trans-lawmaker-by-banning-her-from-capitol-bathrooms

* Sarah McBride: trans woman representing Delaware in House of Rep.

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Congress #NancyMace #transphobia #misogyny #TDoR #SarahMcBride

#USpol #Trump #Trump2 #MAGA #Trumpism #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #Gilead #misogyny #sexism #paternalism

Once institutions like the media get on board what that claim and spread it further through the population, people begin to think that what really drew them to the shock-and-awe spectacles — their rejection of norms, their frank celebration of cruelty — was all about economics in the first place.

It's never about the thrill of cruelty, of targeting demeaned others. It's always about the price of eggs.

But, of course, it's not about that at all.

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And normalization proves surprisingly easy as institutions like the media, educational institutions, religious bodies, corporations and the business community, get on board with what they see happening — the wave of the future, they tell themselves, the winning side.

One way fascism normalizes itself — always — is by pretending to be all about the economic betterment of economically oppressed people.

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A theme running through much testimony by eyewitnesses as Hitler's fascist movement rose to power in Germany was that the Nazis initially represented only a limited percentage of Germans.

But once it was clear that their star was ascending, people began to applaud the movement and the shock-and-awe spectacles it mounted to excite people.

A key project of fascism is always to normalize itself as it rises.

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JD Vance confirms Trump's regime change at FBI
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/20/jd-vance-accidentally-confirmed-that-wants-regime-change-at-the-fbi

* fire Trump1 appointee Christopher Wray
* replacement incl.
Mike Rogers (R-MI)
Kash Patel: Trump1/hardline loyalist

Fmr FBI agent Daniel Brunner: “someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous”

#USpol #FBI #Trump2 #GOP #fascism#JDVance #KashPatel #MikeRogers
#Project2025 #MassDeportations #xenophobia
#libertarianism #privatization #PrisonIndustrialComplex

Trump picks Matthew Whitaker for ambassador to NATO
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20/nx-s1-5188699/trump-matthew-whitaker-nato

* Trump criticizes defense spending by other NATO member countries
* argues U.S. shoulders oversized burden
* Trump1: Whitaker critical of Robert Mueller's investigation into poss. ties betw. 2016 Trump campaign & Russia

#USpol #MatthewWhitaker #NATO #Trump2 #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia #misogyny #sexism #paternalism

[thread] Matthew Whitaker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Whitaker

* lawyer, lobbyist, politician
* Trump1: acting U.S. Attorney General Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
* Christian; opposes non-Christian judiciary
* xenophile
* climate change denial

#USpol #MatthewWhitaker #Trump2 #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia #misogyny #sexism #paternalism

Trans community resolved to persevere through another Trump presidency
https://truthout.org/articles/trans-community-prepares-to-persevere-through-another-trump-presidency
reposted: https://truthout.org/articles/trans-community-prepares-to-persevere-through-another-trump-presidency/

* leaders of the movement remind trans people of their long history of resilience and resistance

“We come from a lineage of resilience,” said Erin Reed, an independent reporter on transgender political issues in Washington, D.C.
Dora Richter
Sylvia Rivera
Marsha P. Johnson
Christine Jorgensen

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Christofasciam #antiLGBT #transphobia #TransRights

APROPOS OF EVERYTHING

When is a photo an act of resistance?
"For families that just decades earlier were torn apart by chattel slavery, being photographed together was proof of their resilience. "

https://youtu.be/H1AuowPhTZM

from:
AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US.

#USA #history #fascism