In politics if the fascists are willing to vote for someone they consider flawed but useful, while their opposition will only vote for perfection, the fascists win every time #NeverDem is a classic GOP vote-suppression op
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Fascism takes root when a compliant opposition becomes collaborators and gives the fascist movement a vaneer of normalcy. Hannah Arendt and Timothy Snyder write well about this. Being willing and able to fight is not perfection. It's table stakes for my vote and my money.
apr 14, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
No they didn't lol Arendt wrote about civil servants (what you maga types call the deep state) doing their job w/o questioning the job itself or its outcomes Snyder writes about obeying in advance -- what NYT and WaPo did, e.g., in fellating Trump and attacking/silencing his political opponents
apr 14, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I should mention as well that fascism takes root when the opposition has been weakened by losing votes
apr 14, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol indeed. That's a sadly shallow read of both of them. Chapter 2 of On Tyranny is literally about defending institutions with a chilling warning of what happens when the opposition goes along to get along. MAGA? I gave $3k to Ds in '24 and marched 3x in the last month. Good luck to you in life.
apr 14, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
OK. I've only read Snyder's articles, substacks, and watched his lectures Defending institutions is an odd one for you to fixate on since that's one of the main things #NeverDem so heavily attack Dems for, defending institutions instead of breaking everything in sight and copying the GOP
apr 15, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view