"In recent years, right-wing figures have obsessed over masculinity, casting themselves as 'strong men' who will do what is necessary to 'create good times,' after 'weak men' created today’s 'hard times.'"

~ Nicholas Grossman

#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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liberalcurrents.com/nonpolitic…

Nonpolitical Media Has Been Flooded With Outrage at Alex Pretti's Murder

Anatomy of a turning point.

^{Nicholas Grossman (Liberal Currents)}

"Alex Pretti put himself at risk to defend his community, and his final act was protecting an injured woman, while ICE officers hide behind masks, and commentators post about 'strong men' from the safety of their homes."

#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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"Those of us who have experienced MAGA insurrectionists as Proud Boys and militiamen in the streets can readily recognize the hypermasculine, thin-skinned men hiding behind the masks as ICE agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere."

~ David Neiwert

#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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davidneiwert.substack.com/p/be…

Behind the masks, the real insurrectionists

The same MAGA extremists who attacked our democracy on Jan. 6 are continuing their mission, empowered and armed by Trump

^{David Neiwert (The Spyhop)}

"The whole grand political conflict we are witnessing in America is ultimately nothing more than a vast, self-mirroring game of projection, running for 30 years and longer, financed by our plutocratic overlords from the start. It would be tragically ironic for American democracy to die at the hands of a fantasy."

#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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