"Spend enough dark money, and you can bend the river. You can replace objective reason with subjective belief. You can unleash the primitive and irrational forces within us. Mass ideas become once again, mass delusion. Fascism, dressed in the emperor's new clothes, becomes something again for the crowd to marvel at and cheer."
~ Paul Lynch
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #EconomicElites #DarkMoney #disinformation
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/after-the-election-swimming-in-the
"People need to remember that oftentimes things that are done in America that we feel most shameful about enjoyed widespread support from both the populace and many elites at the time."
~ Peter Beinart
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #EconomicElites #DarkMoney #disinformation
/4
https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/brutalizing-the-stranger
"There have been two 'Mass Deportations' of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent that have happened before in the United States. You don’t know about it because this history isn’t taught."
~ Mike Madrid
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #EconomicElites #DarkMoney #disinformation #immigrants #MassDeportations
/5
https://greattransformation.substack.com/p/mass-deportations-a-dark-history
A.R. Moxon sees that those who voted for Trump are in it for the cruelty, whether they admit that or not. The wild popularity of a proposal to round up millions of people, incarcerate and then deport them, tells us this loudly. He writes,
"Everyone who voted for Donald Trump and his fascist party must be considered to be, on some level, an unsafe person."
"The act reveals either a desire for violent predation of the strong upon the weak, to be enacted on levels of racial and religious bigotry and sexual dominance and power and wealth; or else an indifference, or else an ignorance, but in any case the person who has managed to get themselves to such a place cannot be assumed safe, and must in fact be presumed unsafe."
"It’s often said that Trump campaigned expressly on a platform of authoritarian rule, but this also applies to corruption: He didn’t disguise his promises to govern in the direct interests of some of the wealthiest executives & investors in the country—and he won anyway. Trump & his allies will likely interpret this as a green light to engage in an extraordinary spree of unrestrained malfeasance."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #EconomicElites #corruption
/9
https://newrepublic.com/article/188467/trumps-musk-oligarchy-corruption
Kate Selig reports that the wave of racists texts sent soon after the election to Black people has expanded to include Hispanics and LGBTQ communities. The texts include false claims that they have been 'selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp,' the FBI warns.
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #immigrants #racism #LGBTQ #Latinos
/10
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/election-texts-hispanic-lgbtq.html
