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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Dec 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted David Klion

    This is definitely the strongest articulation of the idea that Trump is not an authoritarian threat but weak.https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1334954366600667139 …

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    David KlionVerified account @DavidKlion
    I don't necessarily agree with everything @CoreyRobin said to me in this interview, although I agree with most of it, but no one has made a more compelling and consistent case that Trump should be understood as an unusually weak president. https://jewishcurrents.org/almost-the-complete-opposite-of-fascism/ …
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      2. "Give Me Ammunition, Not a Ride" James‏ @wetcasements 13 Dec 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        to paraphrase recent twitter, Incompetent Fascism is still on the same Political Spectrum as Real, Hitler Fascism

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      3. Lisa Simpson's REAL Magic Bear-Repelling Rock‏ @FERALROBOTS 13 Dec 2020
        Replying to @wetcasements @HeerJeet

        FTM, most fascism is fundamentally pretty incompetent. Nazis & Italian fascists were no exception.

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      1. Mark Shatraw‏ @09mshatraw 13 Dec 2020
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        It's not so much about Trump personally as the path he's taking. A smarter, better, less toxic politician in a closer race now has a playbook to follow.

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      1. One More Josh‏ @JoshZ2012 13 Dec 2020
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        The idea that Trump isn't "dependent on mass politics of any sort" completely misses that the Fox News/right wing media infrastructure has is the most powerful organizing force in mass politics. Recognizing that no matter what Trump does that persists sinks the argument.

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      1. zaron‏ @zaron5551 13 Dec 2020
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        this assumes, wrongly to a large extent imo, that authoritarianism can't be weak

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      1. Lisa Simpson's REAL Magic Bear-Repelling Rock‏ @FERALROBOTS 13 Dec 2020
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        Not sure I understand your point, here, Jeet. 'Weak' & 'not-authoritarian-threat' are in no meaningful way synonymous - not remotely so. In fact 'weakness' of the type being described strongly disposes a leader TOWARD authoritarianism.

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      1. BargainNanny‏ @OpposibleThumbs 13 Dec 2020
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        So what do we want? A strong biosecurity surveillance state?

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      1. ProfOfIndefiniteArticles‏ @ProfThibodeau 13 Dec 2020
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        Corey's right, but the problem is people take away the message 'nothing to worry about here' when they read him, rather than grapple with his argument about our institutions crippling democracy (ironically, only P. Buttigieg, no leftie, fully grasps the latter argument).

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      2. Hmmmmmm‏ @hmullphoto 13 Dec 2020
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        I’d say the real authoritarian is Mitch McConnell and Trump is merely his puppet.

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      3. Regular Human Bartender‏ @AaronSundance 13 Dec 2020
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        I’d argue along similar lines that McConnell has been systematically (though unintentionally) weakening the GOP for as long as he has been in power by making it more and more dependent on minoritarian institutions that could eventually be vulnerable to democratic reforms.

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