Young voters swung toward Trump
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/07/g-s1-33331/unpacking-the-2024-youth-vote-heres-what-we-know-so-far

* young men struggling w. fast-changing gender roles
* what it means to be masculine

* Trump gives license to say w/e they want about women
* implicit promise: give them control over women/bodies
https://newrepublic.com/article/187419/trumps-promise-young-men-retribution-against-women

* young people across polit. leanings disillusioned w. leaders
* want politicians to become more involved in critical issues
* fatalistic about gov. failure to do so
https://fortune.com/2024/11/07/trumps-victory-reveals-secret-republicans-joe-rogan-obsessed-gen-z-men

#ToxicMasculinity #Trump2 #GOP

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* toxic influencers
* identity politics now indep. of race, ethnicity/truth/reality
* Republicans invest/nurture younger party members/influencers
* Dems: focus on older/ignore younger base
* Dems: reactive responses to mimetic/virulent GOP propaganda
* economic progress but supply-chain issues
* incr. concentration of wealth: oligarchy/private equity
* hence inflation/unaffordability/failing services
* no real leadership/costing/solutions by ANY politicians capable of holding office

How Trump Won
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/08/how-trump-won

* politics of fear: digital media anarchy cultivated audiences w. messages that were instantaneous, personal, visual
* economy a main issue in 2020 election
* Pew researchers: “Among Trump supporters, economy (93%), immigration (82%) & violent crime (76%) the leading issues”
* Trump’s simple, sensationalized messages stressed that pervasive fears among Americans were legitimate: crime, drugs, terrorists

#Trump2 #misogyny #xenophobia #propaganda #fascism

“Open Celebration of Oligarchy:” Dems/GOP Both Sucked Up to Billionaires in 2024 Election
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/8/david_sirota_billionaires_election_2024_trump

* richest people saw net worth soar as stocks rapidly shot up
* outsized role of super-rich in U.S politics
* Trump, Kamala Harris campaigned heavily w. billionaires looking for return on investment

#DavidSirota #Trump2 #billionaires #WealthTax #Musk #Bezos #Mellon #DeVos #Uihlein #Schwarzman #Singer #meritocracy #plutocracy #oligarchy #fascism #GOP #inequality #WealthConcentration

"Listen here, sweetheart:" Trump advisor Mike Davis threatens NY AG Letitia James with prison
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/listen-here-sweetheart-ally-threatens-ny-ag-letitia-james-with-prison

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1854615830358614487
"I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump... listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time and we will put your fatass in prison for conspiracy against rights."

#LetitiaJames #NewYork #Trump2 #MikeDavis #misogyny #fascism #extremism #GOP #revenge

Elon Musk Proves He Owns White House in 1st Trump Call to Ukraine's Zelenskyy
https://newrepublic.com/post/188208/elon-musk-trump-call-ukraine-zelenskiy

Elon Musk Joins Trump Call w. Zelenskyy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/08/elon-musk-trump-zelensky-call-ukraine-russia-transition

Older

Musk Shut Off Starlink to Stop Ukrainian Attack
Used Starlink to disrupt planned Ukrainian attack on Russia
https://newrepublic.com/post/175435/elon-musk-shut-off-starlink-stop-ukrainian-attack-russia

Musk Chats Up Putin While Aiding Ukraine
Pentagon concerned re: Musk & battlefield resources under his control
https://newrepublic.com/post/175102/farrow-musk-starlink-ukraine-invasion

#Musk #NationalSecurity #Trump2 #billionaires #oligarchy

Fox News' Jesse Watters can't wait for "Dad" Trump to begin mass deportation: "gonna be hysterical"

* descr. Trump2 mass deportations as "dad" doing "tough thing"

"Sometimes, you have to do tough stuff, but AOC is going to be there tying herself to migrants. It’s gonna be hysterical."

Jesse Watters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Watters

#FOXnews #JesseWatters #QAnon #disinformation #paternalism
#Trump2
#fascism #authoritarianism #xenophobia #racism
#Project2025
#capitalism #billionaires
#Christofascism

ALT

Trump’s gains w. Latinos reshaping U.S. politics
https://apnews.com/article/hispanic-voters-trump-florida-texas-pennsylvania-democrats-3637d86dede99e36f35d725afabdcba1

* many Hispanics (partic. devoutly religious) alienated by Democrats' focus on reproductive/ transgender rights
* latter key political weapon for GOP

Republicans Spent $215M on TV Ads Attacking Trans Rights
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448367916372229

Wildly successful anti-trans ads fired up Texas' Republican voters
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448456541299668

#Trump2 #GOP #Project2025 #fascism
#Christofascism #Catholiciam #transphobia #misogyny #WomensRights

ALT

/1 Societal problems unaddressed by incumbents = voter disillusionment/abandonment

* immigration rhetoric did not resonate w. Hispanics
* 7/10 very concerned about cost of food
* 2/3 very concerned about housing costs
* 1/2 said Trump would better handle economy
* devoutly religious Hispanics alienated by Dems’ focus on reproductive/transgender rights

https://apnews.com/article/hispanic-voters-trump-florida-texas-pennsylvania-democrats-3637d86dede99e36f35d725afabdcba1

#USpol #Trump2 #xenophobia #disinformation
#capitalism #inflation #FoodSecurity #AffordableHousing
#Christofascism

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... and this is the crap that disaffects voters, gets right-wing/far-right populists (with no solutions or costing, of course) elected:

B.C. emergency room closed for 3rd time in 9 days
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-emergency-room-closed-for-3rd-time-in-9-days-1.7104642

* wealthy country
* pressing problems
* ineffectual leadership
* no solutions
* political stagnation
* suffering populace
* populist shills
* far-right blowback

#BC #politics #PoliticalInertia

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Trump’s Likely AG: We’re Going to Put Kids in Cages - Vows Reign of Terror

* Mike Davis pot. Trump2 attorney general
* wants to put journalists in gulags & kids in cages

"Listen here, sweetheart:" Trump advisor Mike Davis threatens NY AG Letitia James with prison
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448709600255473

#LetitiaJames #NewYork
#Trump2 #GOP #MikeDavis #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #xenophobia
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #Project2025
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia

@persagen

He's trolling...and he'll still be trolling when people die...

Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters, make his criminal cases vanish
https://apnews.com/article/trump-day-1-priorities-deportations-drilling-ukraine-6747c6e64b0440978f59450b928f61d1

Comment: coup d'état instantiate in one day

#Trump2 #GOP #JDVance #SteveBannon #MikeDavis
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #xenophobia #dictators
#antiLGBT #transphobia
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#Christofascism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism

How GOP crushed Democrats [Election of far-right gov]

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448643612890152
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113459968887592809

In part, GOP nurtures younger base
https://therealnews.com/the-infernal-triangle-destroying-us-democracy

Trump2 EPA pick Lee Zeldin: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113470956012478722
* launched "Leadership America Needs"
* PAC aimed at incr. GOP turnout among young/voters of color
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Zeldin#Other_political_activism

#LeeZeldin #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #EPA #Project2025
#billionaires #capitalism #libertarianism #EcologicalDestruction #ClimateDenial #GlobalWarming

Democrats May Give Trump the Power to Wipe Out Nonprofits
https://jacobin.com/2024/11/trump-nonprofits-tax-legislation-terrorism/

* Congress set to vote on bipartisan legislation
* allow Trump2 to strip tax-exempt status f. nonprofits deemed “terrorist-supporting organization”
* arms Trump w. new tool against opponents

#ACLU #CivilRights #nonprofits
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #misogyny #paternalism

@persagen Well, there go all the hospitals!