reading Claremont is interesting because they make it clear they view the deployment of the National Guard as a Schmittian measure to destroy the left in DC but want to avoid the optics of looking like a dictator americanmind.org/salvo/the-fi...
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Fascinating to think this might have happened because the right worked themselves into an urgent conviction that DC was about to somehow achieve statehood and is now searching bemusedly for the people plotting it
aug 23, 2025, 1:43 pm • 15 0 • view
Propaganda
aug 23, 2025, 1:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Claremont is an organization that exclusively hires JRPG villains to write articles about the US government
aug 23, 2025, 1:50 pm • 49 2 • view
These people are completely delusional. Unable to conceive of normal, organic, and popular opposition to whatever it is they think they’re doing.
aug 23, 2025, 1:44 pm • 5 0 • view
Wasn’t John Eastman available?
aug 23, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_...
aug 23, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It's funny their argument is 'don't look like a dictator putting the military on the streets,' but also 'lock up all the activists and Black people for minor infractions' because they dared to protest the military being on the streets.
aug 25, 2025, 6:09 am • 4 0 • view
What aspect of the left are they destroying in DC though? All this has done is harden the voices advocating for DC statehood. A decade from now, you may very well point to this moment when DC becomes the 51st state. They are so drunk on power without any thought to what kind of blowback may come.
aug 23, 2025, 1:42 pm • 17 1 • view
Can't be blowback if their opponents never gain power again.
aug 23, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 23, 2025, 1:56 pm • 8 0 • view
You have to know what threat you're actually facing if you hope to win.
aug 23, 2025, 1:59 pm • 4 0 • view
You act like we're just a little sick and some rest and water will make it all better. No. We have cancer and need an aggressive course of radiation and chemotherapy if we hope to survive.
aug 23, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 0 • view
At the moment, we're collectively still in denial about our diagnosis.
aug 23, 2025, 2:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Do you have any suggested reading on these guys? Or maybe a summary of who they are? I’d like to think I’m considerably more online than the average American and I’m not quite sure how much political or intellectual power these guys have.
aug 23, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/unl...
aug 23, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, I’d like to share this with some Free DC folks and know what I’m talking about
aug 23, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I generally do not read this stuff, so I don’t really know how to take such claims as “Violent crime had reached such levels that he was compelled …” Does the writer really believe this?
aug 23, 2025, 2:17 pm • 16 0 • view
Quite a stupid position, as well, because there is no possible way it will “destroy the left” in DC. If anything it’s radicalizing people!
aug 23, 2025, 2:29 pm • 75 1 • view
It's also stupid because the administration DOES want the optics of dictatorship!
aug 23, 2025, 11:17 pm • 3 0 • view
It's why I actively refuse to call the Trump Administration a 'regime'. The word probably fits better, but I refuse to give that geriatric fascist the satisfaction.
aug 25, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view