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Shoq

We KNOW what they are doing. The only thing that befuddles me is WHY ARENT WE TALKING ABOUT ACTION TO REMEDY THIS?

If you think pluralism and politics can fix this, you’re tragically naive—or just stupid. There IS no precedent for this structural venality. But there IS precedent for other societies rising up to reject far less. What does it take to find your balls, America?

Transcript: Trump’s Ugly Eruptions Over Wildfires Hint at Darker Story

newrepublic.com/article/190034

The New Republic · Transcript: Trump’s Ugly Eruptions Over Wildfires Hint at Darker StoryAn interview with Nicole Hemmer, a historian of the right wing, about how Trump’s vile, hateful tirades about the Los Angeles fires reveal the MAGA right’s broader project of degrading public life.

@shoq This silence so reminds me of the Gingrich era and the Contract with America. A lot of thinking was let them overreach and the pendulum will swing back. They did and there was somewhat of a swing back.

But overreach as they might this time around I don't think what will be left will be worth swinging back to.

@shoq Exactly. See South Korea and Romania.

Romania when the essentially lynched the Ceausescus, or has something happened there since that I somehow missed?

The folly of thinking pluralism and politics (or procedure) can fix this is poignantly illustrated here:

youtube.com/watch?v=MAbab8aP4_…