> Do Americans really want to live in a fascist or authoritarian nation? Some may believe it will work out just fine – that the loss of freedom may hurt others, but not them – but most of us don’t want that. Or we wouldn’t if we were fully aware of the consequences.
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> I talked with Sharlet about the actions that the mainstream press and regular citizens can take now that we know what we know.
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> Newsrooms big and small, he believes, need to educate their staffs about the dangers of fascism.
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> . . .
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> The fact that many newsrooms now have democracy teams or democracy reporters suggests that they understand the problem to some extent. But they need to get much more urgent about it.
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> That kind of change takes clear leadership from the top.
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> . . .
>
> **What about regular citizens?**
>
> **Perhaps most importantly, they need to stop tuning out. They shouldn’t throw up their hands and decide not to care about politics or the future of the country.**
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> **“People need to pay attention to the exhaustion they feel and know that it is a symptom of acquiescence and adaptation,” Sharlet told me.**
>
> **As Ben-Ghiat told me on my American Crisis podcast, that exhaustion is part of the strongman’s playbook.**
>
> **Trump creates chaos, and we grow tired of it. Weary of the relentless flow of bad news, the dire warnings, the anxiety, we retreat into our personal lives or our political bubbles.**
If the citizens of our country watched what Trump did for four years and STILL thinks he should be president again then 1) we deserve whatever christofacist hellhole this country becomes and 2) the DNC is absolutely moronic for not spending the last four years pushing a better candidate forward.
I’m going to vote and will encourage others to vote, but I’m not going to spend this entire election cycle anxious and strain the relationships of people I otherwise love because we differ on whether or not we want a Giant Douche or a Turd Sandwich again.
But it’ll totally own the libs. Think of all the memes!
91 indictments wasn’t enough memes, I guess.
Four years of Trump and he still got like what 80 million votes?
There is nothing that would sway people like this, nothing at all. They were literally in hospital beds talking about pandemic conspiracies. They are mentally conditioned and delusional. Trump the former Democrat who acts like a false prophet and they kneel before him metaphorically.
We’ve been talking about it constantly it’s just that a significant portion of the us doesn’t care or will not listen
Well the MAGAs used to be more bold. Now they run away from me at work.
Trump wants to emulate Grover Cleveland
As if we haven’t been doing this since 2020… It’s a lost cause Trump is going to win, the DNC is dying and the TRNC is thriving. There’s little unity on the left there’s more chaos than anything else and most Democrats, liberals, and progressives aren’t doing much of anything to appeal to Republicans while at the same time ignoring the needs of their own voters… I’m predicting big trouble for our nation by the time we reach our big 250 if things don’t get better
It is hilarious to see the word fascist used to describe Trump by a supporter of the regime that wants to essentially ban natural gas stoves, natural gas heaters, electric dishwashers, electric clothes washers, air conditioners and gasoline powered automobiles while at the same time banning any reasonably reliable way to generate electricity.
Hell … let’s talk about the dangers of governors ignoring the constitution.
I’ve been listening to people talk about this urgently for two years.
Pretty much constantly, increasing as Trump jumps further into blatant fascism.
The best case for the DNC is a Trump candidacy. Trump is the best fundraiser and grass roots motivator the DNC could imagine.
Biden will beat Trump because every rational person will vote against Trump, not for Biden.
Maybe when they see the MAGAs goosestepping down their street, they’ll change their mind. Oh , wait! They are incapable of that.
C’mon, people! It’s dig time. Let’s show ’em some real Dems in Disarray!
If Trump gets reelected, America would 💯 deserve it because you made a conscious choice.
Add to comment. People who vote me down clearly don’t understand. You have a god damn choice to vote and you choose not to which lead to his reelection which means you consciously didn’t vote and because you didn’t and the person you didn’t want is in office is on you. Even if 5% of the people went to vote for him but what happened to the other 95% so. It’s on you voters no one else.
Instead of handwringing, how about putting Biden out to pasture and getting someone younger that the under 30s will vote for?
The people have been. Now its the medias turn.
If only the Senate had done what needed to be done we wouldn’t need this conversation
Every day since 2015, I have wished for his funeral. Instead, America is dying.
We the people deserve what we vote…
“*Start*”? Mofos, we’ve been talking about the danger of it since January 21st 2020. Anyone who doesn’t know by now is either a Republican, being willingly stupid, or dead and we will likely keep talking about it every election until the Cheeto Mussolini is tossed in a cardboard casket (because Donald Jr certainly isn’t paying for a good one) after suffering a heart attack from too much hamburgers and covfefe and dropped 6ft deep.
There’s really nothing left to say. This isn’t 2016 when most people didn’t really know what Trump is capable of. Since then Trump has attempted to falsfy and discredit the result of democratic elections as well as organized a coup against democracy. That’s on top of being tried for a several dozen felonies. There’s really nothing left to add here, the situation is perfectly clear.
But I will say this. Regardless of whether Trump wins or not, the mere fact that the majority of US voters are seriously considering electing an autocrat and a criminal, supposedly because housing prices went up and there was some inflation, is a major defeat for democracy onto itself.
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What a weird headline. We’ve been talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency non-stop since November of 2016.
djt is a BAZI
So lettting 10+ million illegals over the border 40%+ of his time in office on vacations while claiming his e yearly 400k , leaving millions in equipment in Afghanistan two proxy wars air strikes on Yemen billions of foreign aid to non nato country while our country burns and vets are homeless inflation at an all time high housing all time high yea it was trump that cared for himself 🤡 let’s not forget it was trumps son doing crack on video then proceeding to find coke in the White House
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A bit from the article:
> Do Americans really want to live in a fascist or authoritarian nation? Some may believe it will work out just fine – that the loss of freedom may hurt others, but not them – but most of us don’t want that. Or we wouldn’t if we were fully aware of the consequences.
>
> I talked with Sharlet about the actions that the mainstream press and regular citizens can take now that we know what we know.
>
> Newsrooms big and small, he believes, need to educate their staffs about the dangers of fascism.
>
> . . .
>
> The fact that many newsrooms now have democracy teams or democracy reporters suggests that they understand the problem to some extent. But they need to get much more urgent about it.
>
> That kind of change takes clear leadership from the top.
>
> . . .
>
> **What about regular citizens?**
>
> **Perhaps most importantly, they need to stop tuning out. They shouldn’t throw up their hands and decide not to care about politics or the future of the country.**
>
> **“People need to pay attention to the exhaustion they feel and know that it is a symptom of acquiescence and adaptation,” Sharlet told me.**
>
> **As Ben-Ghiat told me on my American Crisis podcast, that exhaustion is part of the strongman’s playbook.**
>
> **Trump creates chaos, and we grow tired of it. Weary of the relentless flow of bad news, the dire warnings, the anxiety, we retreat into our personal lives or our political bubbles.**
If the citizens of our country watched what Trump did for four years and STILL thinks he should be president again then 1) we deserve whatever christofacist hellhole this country becomes and 2) the DNC is absolutely moronic for not spending the last four years pushing a better candidate forward.
I’m going to vote and will encourage others to vote, but I’m not going to spend this entire election cycle anxious and strain the relationships of people I otherwise love because we differ on whether or not we want a Giant Douche or a Turd Sandwich again.
But it’ll totally own the libs. Think of all the memes!
91 indictments wasn’t enough memes, I guess.
Four years of Trump and he still got like what 80 million votes?
There is nothing that would sway people like this, nothing at all. They were literally in hospital beds talking about pandemic conspiracies. They are mentally conditioned and delusional. Trump the former Democrat who acts like a false prophet and they kneel before him metaphorically.
We’ve been talking about it constantly it’s just that a significant portion of the us doesn’t care or will not listen
Well the MAGAs used to be more bold. Now they run away from me at work.
Trump wants to emulate Grover Cleveland
As if we haven’t been doing this since 2020… It’s a lost cause Trump is going to win, the DNC is dying and the TRNC is thriving. There’s little unity on the left there’s more chaos than anything else and most Democrats, liberals, and progressives aren’t doing much of anything to appeal to Republicans while at the same time ignoring the needs of their own voters… I’m predicting big trouble for our nation by the time we reach our big 250 if things don’t get better
It is hilarious to see the word fascist used to describe Trump by a supporter of the regime that wants to essentially ban natural gas stoves, natural gas heaters, electric dishwashers, electric clothes washers, air conditioners and gasoline powered automobiles while at the same time banning any reasonably reliable way to generate electricity.
Hell … let’s talk about the dangers of governors ignoring the constitution.
I’ve been listening to people talk about this urgently for two years.
Pretty much constantly, increasing as Trump jumps further into blatant fascism.
The best case for the DNC is a Trump candidacy. Trump is the best fundraiser and grass roots motivator the DNC could imagine.
Biden will beat Trump because every rational person will vote against Trump, not for Biden.
Maybe when they see the MAGAs goosestepping down their street, they’ll change their mind. Oh , wait! They are incapable of that.
C’mon, people! It’s dig time. Let’s show ’em some real Dems in Disarray!
If Trump gets reelected, America would 💯 deserve it because you made a conscious choice.
Add to comment. People who vote me down clearly don’t understand. You have a god damn choice to vote and you choose not to which lead to his reelection which means you consciously didn’t vote and because you didn’t and the person you didn’t want is in office is on you. Even if 5% of the people went to vote for him but what happened to the other 95% so. It’s on you voters no one else.
Instead of handwringing, how about putting Biden out to pasture and getting someone younger that the under 30s will vote for?
The people have been. Now its the medias turn.
If only the Senate had done what needed to be done we wouldn’t need this conversation
Every day since 2015, I have wished for his funeral. Instead, America is dying.
We the people deserve what we vote…
“*Start*”? Mofos, we’ve been talking about the danger of it since January 21st 2020. Anyone who doesn’t know by now is either a Republican, being willingly stupid, or dead and we will likely keep talking about it every election until the Cheeto Mussolini is tossed in a cardboard casket (because Donald Jr certainly isn’t paying for a good one) after suffering a heart attack from too much hamburgers and covfefe and dropped 6ft deep.
There’s really nothing left to say. This isn’t 2016 when most people didn’t really know what Trump is capable of. Since then Trump has attempted to falsfy and discredit the result of democratic elections as well as organized a coup against democracy. That’s on top of being tried for a several dozen felonies. There’s really nothing left to add here, the situation is perfectly clear.
But I will say this. Regardless of whether Trump wins or not, the mere fact that the majority of US voters are seriously considering electing an autocrat and a criminal, supposedly because housing prices went up and there was some inflation, is a major defeat for democracy onto itself.
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What a weird headline. We’ve been talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency non-stop since November of 2016.
djt is a BAZI
So lettting 10+ million illegals over the border 40%+ of his time in office on vacations while claiming his e yearly 400k , leaving millions in equipment in Afghanistan two proxy wars air strikes on Yemen billions of foreign aid to non nato country while our country burns and vets are homeless inflation at an all time high housing all time high yea it was trump that cared for himself 🤡 let’s not forget it was trumps son doing crack on video then proceeding to find coke in the White House