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They held a fascist rally at Madison Square Gardens.
Right now, my grandfather and tens of thousands of soldiers who lost their lives fighting the Nazis during WWII are turning over in their graves.
#madisonsquaregarden #fascism #republicans #nazis #trump
#election #election2024 #voteblue #vote #democracy
"It is 'vitally important' to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, 'even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.'”
To repeat: this warning was issued in 1943. After what happened in Europe in the 1930s. It was issued by the US War Department.
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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"'In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.'
Third, fascists would insist that 'the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.'”
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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"First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a 'well-planned "hate campaign" against minority races, religions, and other groups.'
Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else."
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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The pamphlet warned Army members not to imagine that fascism could not come to the US. Americans had once laughed at Hitler as a funny little man with a mustache, and look at what happened.
"The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power 'under the guise of
"super-patriotism" and "super-Americanism."' And they would use three techniques:"
#fascism #Trump #Republicans
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"“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.' 'Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and the church," was the Nazi slogan for women,' the pamphlet said."
Heather Cox Richardson offers a valuable précis of a series of pamphlets the US War Deprtment published in 1943 for for US Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. The series was entitled "Army Talks."
The pamphlets define fascism as “government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.”
#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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October 26, 2024
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
Here’s how dishonest #NY State #Republicans are:
Proposition 1 would enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the NY Constitution. It “adds anti-discrimination provisions to State Constitution. Covers ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity and pregnancy. Also covers reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”
No one word about immigration.
“Deny Women Equal Protection Under the Law in New York!” looks weird on a sign, I guess.
nothing to see here, just #JDVance actively encouraging the breaking of laws and the harassment of poll workers in a swing state.
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#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #polls #swingState #Pennsylvania #Michigan #Wisconsin #Virginia #VoteHarris
Those who think it’s okay to allow a convicted felon like trump to become a fascist dictator have only lived in a free society.
Those same people will be the first to panic and wonder why nobody stopped trump as they begin to systematically lose their rights and freedoms and standard of living.
#fascism #republicans #trump #election2024 #election #democracy #voteblue #harris
"To sum up, over four decades, twenty-six women have told strikingly similar stories of being assaulted by Donald. …
His rallies are descending into disturbing displays of a patriarchal fantasy of the subjugation, infantilization, and sexualized punishment of women."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Stanley also notes that the obsession with declining birthrates — especially among white women — within fascist movements, an obsession Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and JD Vance want to put front and center now, is linked to fascist aspirations. Women need to be put back into "their place" as mothers, and spanked back into place if they refuse.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Jason Stanley (ibid.) sees a direct line between the exploitation of male anxiety about perceived loss of status by aspiring fascist leaders, and their attacks on LGBTQ and especially trans individuals.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (NY: Random House, 2018), on how aspiring fascist leaders deliberately distort and exploit male anxiety about loss of status to gain power.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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“The leader’s displays of machismo and his kinship with other male leaders are not just bluster, but a way of exercising power at home and conducting foreign policy. Virility enables his corruption, projecting the idea that he is above laws that weaker individuals must follow."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (NY: Norton, 2020), pp. 7-8
In the passages attached below from his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), Charles Marsh chronicles how the drive among Germany's Protestant leaders for a "manly Christianity" played a major role in facilitating Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s.
#Trump #Republicans #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #Hitler #Nazis #churches
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"And so when, for example, a Politico op-Ed offers that 'There is a new Gender Policy Council in the White House, but it has not addressed a single issue facing boys or men,' I am confused, as that council’s national strategy includes a section called 'Protect, Improve, and Expand Access to Health Care, including Sexual and Reproductive Health Care.' Did I miss something? Are those not issues facing men and boys?"
#Trump #Republicans #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism
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"Thirty to 40 percent of infertility cases involve male factor infertility, so let us not pretend that IVF is some great gift just for women. And it’s, of course, not only straight, cisgender couples that use fertility treatments: I know gay couples, for example, who used IVF to expand their families."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Emily Tamkin responds to Politico's claim that men are supporting Trump because their "issues" are ignored by Harris and the Democrats:
"Almost every straight man I know has benefitted from birth control. Planned Parenthood offers STD testing for men, too."
~ Emily Tamkin
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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"According to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll, Trump is besting Kamala Harris among men by 53% to 37%, while the Democratic candidate is winning among women 53% to 36%."
~ Luca Ittimani
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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US presidential election updates: Polls show historic gender split between Trump and Harris voters
Kamala Harris has brushed aside suggestions her campaign is falling behind with male voters as Donald Trump appears in Nevada and ArizonaLuca Ittimani (The Guardian)
"But invoking the image of Trump as 'daddy' or as a punishing God and having that message embraced by the frenetic crowd, who also cheered that 'Christ is King,' is enough to make any normal person squirm."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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"This also isn’t the first time that the right has talked about spanking on the main stage. In 2016, Chris Christie threatened Hillary Clinton, promising to 'beat her rear end,' and Senator Ted Cruz asked voters to give Clinton 'a spanking.'"
~ Paige Oamek
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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newrepublic.com/post/187485/tu…
Tucker Carlson Gives Truly Disturbing Speech About “Daddy” Trump
These are real quotes from a real speech Tucker Carlson gave at a Trump rally.The New Republic
"It also translates into state policies that target women and LGBTQ+ populations, who are as much the strongman’s enemies as prosecutors and the press. ….
Virility, in the form of the leader’s dominance over women and other men, has pride of place in his [i.e., the strongman’s] plans for national transformation
~ Ibid., and p. 66
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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"Trump’s history of violence against women matters in itself, whether or not it affects the election."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Trump has been accused of sexual assault again. It matters.
The media and the public should treat the issue seriously.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
""The fact that the disobedient child in this fantasy is a girl is not an accident either. The MAGA right sees Blue America as essentially female, or female-dominated—and, of course, currently led by a woman."
~ Cathy Young
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Don’t Blame Kamala
If she loses—and it really is a toss up—the questions we must ask are about ourselves.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"The authoritarianism has a distinctly misogynist flavor, of a piece with all the other misogynist rhetoric we’ve seen from the right in this campaign: Real men are coming back to put all those misbehaving women in their place."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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"Tucker Carlson has severe and well-documented masculinity issues and he has especially always demonstrated that he feels extremely threatened by Secretary Mayor Pete Buttigieg…."
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #PeteButtigieg #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Tucker Carlson's Perv Daddy Spank Fantasies Are Great Closing Argument, For Kamala Harris
Maybe she can play this at one of her final rallies.Evan Hurst (The Moral High Ground)
"Harris’s spokespeople may dismiss Carlson’s disgusting speech as 'weird' but it is less weird than it is terrifying. The idea of Trump as a father figure spanking a woman into submission seems to resonate with a disturbing number of Americans."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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"For Trump’s cult-like supporters, Carlson’s spanking fantasy encapsulates everything they love about the presidential candidate: the paternalism, the toxic masculinity, the lust for violence and thirst for revenge."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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Tucker Carlson is fantasizing about Daddy Donald Trump spanking teenage girls
The former Fox host once said he hated the ex-president. Now his display of serious daddy issues is striking a terrifying chordArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
"Jeez. 'Daddy’s coming home'. How can we not say this election is also about toxic masculinity and the latent violence of threatened patriarchy?"
~ Peter Jukes as quoted by Paige Oamek
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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newrepublic.com/post/187485/tu…
Tucker Carlson Gives Truly Disturbing Speech About “Daddy” Trump
These are real quotes from a real speech Tucker Carlson gave at a Trump rally.The New Republic
New today: Those in charge don’t even bother to hide how little they care anymore. Hurricane Beryl was the sort of freak occurrence that is sadly now a common facet of life in the era of anthropogenic climate change, as was the shameless breakdown of leadership we saw. texasobserver.org/a-crisis-of-…
#politics #USpol #news #environment #weather #ClimateChange #Republicans #Texas #GregAbbott
In Texas, a Crisis of Inaction Without Consequence
In the face of our leaders’ blatant disregard, short-lived outrage is not enough. It’s time for everyday Texans to take back their power.Colin Bogle (The Texas Observer)
Trump fancies himself a king.
The rest of the world sees him as a court jester at best.
#republicans #trump #election #election2024 #democracy #vote 4 #KamalaHarris
“Do you think somebody possibly has video of Trump mocking the handicapped, demeaning US prisoners of war, boasting about sexually assaulting women, praising Vladimir Putin, or urging a violent attack on the US Capitol? That would be huge.”
~ David Frum as quoted by Andrew Egger
Irony alert here.
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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The Soft Bigotry of Our Trump Expectations
One candidate gets graded like a normal candidate would. The other gets excused for talking about Arnold Palmer’s junk.Sam Stein (The Bulwark)
Dan Froomkin reminds us that the US did once have news commentators fiercely committed to the truth, courageous, and intent to serve democracy by remaining true to their vocation – in a word:
Walter Cronkite.
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Time for a 'Cronkite moment'
Network anchors must speak the unvarnished truth about Trump’s mental stateDan Froomkin (Press Watch)
"The U.S. Naval Academy’s history department invited NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat to give a guest lecture this month about what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule, then the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing figures launched a pressure campaign and the academy disinvited her."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #RuthBenGhiat
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Kamala Harris Plans To Close With A Strong Anti-Fascism Message
INSIDE: Ruth Ben-Ghiat ... Patrick Soon-Shiong ... Mike FlynnDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"We have been studying democratic crisis and authoritarianism for 30 years. Between the two of us, we have written five books on those subjects. We can think of few major national candidates for office in any democracy since World War II who have been this openly authoritarian….
The U.S. establishment is sleepwalking toward a crisis."
~ Steven Levitskiy and Daniel Ziblatt
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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"the reality is Trump could be a wannabe fascist all day. But without followers, he is just a guy screaming out anti-American garbage.
That is why to me it’s far more alarming that millions of Americans see Trump for who he is and love it. They want 'America’s Hitler'—as JD Vance warned in 2016 Trump could become. MAGA is what a modern day fascist movement looks like."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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VP Harris is 100% correct that Trump is a Fascist—but that’s only half the alarming story.
MAGA is a full blown fascist movement!Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)
Endorsing Kamala Harris, The Guardian states that Harris Harris represents a hopeful future, while Trump will drag Americans back into a reactionary past.
Trump’s authoritarianism may be the end of US democracy, The Guardian concludes.
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #TheGuardian
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The Guardian view on the US presidential election 2024: a Democratic government is the one we need
Editorial: This election presents a critical choice. Do we embrace a hopeful future or retreat to a reactionary past? We’re backing Kamala Harris. She will unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flawsHarry Fischer (The Guardian)
And an important piece of information we may need to assess why Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris: as Sewell Chan, previously an editor at Los Angeles Times, reminds us:
"Elon Musk … is friendly with Soon-Shiong — they are both South African-born billionaire entrepreneurs."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #ElonMusk
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Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement
Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president.Columbia Journalism Review