2. It was the usual Trumpian clownshow (i.e. Project Veritas was involved) and more Get Smart or Austen Powers than James Bond. For that reason the usual suspects (you know who they are) will say it was no big deal. But it shows how American authoritarianism would work
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3. Lewis Namier described 18th-century British politics as "aristocracy tempered by rioting." In the same spirit, Trumpism is authoritarianism tempered by clowning. But future demagogues might have a different authoritarian/clownshow ratio.
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4. The popular contrarian take right now is to downplay the authoritarian threat ("Trump was a policy moderate! Resistance Dems were hysterical! Tucker puts me on TV" etc). But the unglamorous truth is there is a real danger. More:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-private-spy-agency-and-the-clown?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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When will any one of these seditionists be arrested? Will they? Or us justice in America just for poor people?
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Wonder if McMaster might have anything he wants to get off his chest now?
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Part of the insurrection...absolutely. When they unravel all of this, it will be a foreign plot to take over the American Government using Americans.
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Reagan exhumed the Confederacy and destroyed the GOP. He sold its soul to hate—hating nonwhites, the rest of US, our government, democracy. Trump simply ripped its mask off. Eric Hoffer
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