The warnings from elite experts about fascism have become a kind of secular eschatology.https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1309314716788031489 …
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Sam Haselby Retweeted Maddow Blog
The warnings from elite experts about fascism have become a kind of secular eschatology.https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1309314716788031489 …
Sam Haselby added,
@maddow gives total ideological predictability a whole new bloom
I would not have thought it possible, but it's true.
Happy to grant the point but I wonder what you both think: what is the appropriate level of concern that we should be expressing, and what is the appropriate language for expressing it?
I don'r find the Fascism analogy accurate or useful. And I don't even understand the "Civil War" panic unless, that is, you think the White Nationalist militias either can stand up to the US military or have so infiltrated the armed forces they will not uphold the Constitution. 1
I agree about fascism analogy (because there are ample better analogies within American history that are closer to the bone, like the end of Reconstruction). But Trump by his own words is definitely trying to bring the military into domestic politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/us/politics/trump-military-election.html …
Despite this (to me) wildly alarmist story, I don't believe the senior leadership of the US military would ever accede to such demands.
I don't think so either -- a good sign was the senior leadership rejected Trump's efforts to use military against BLM protests in early June. But the fact Trump made these overtures is significant for his intent.
To be clear, I don't doubt for a second that Trump would override a Biden victory if he could. I simply don't think the tools exist at his disposal for him to do so.
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