1. Speaking of authoritarianism, yesterday's NY Times report of Trumpists (led by Betsy DeVos' brother Erik Prince) organizing a spy network to entrap FBI agents and national security advisor H.R. McMaster should be seen as part of the same governing pattern as Jan. 6 riot
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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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I mean, they had "agents" with "code names" like "Brazil" & "Tiger", can it get badder Soviet honeypot 60's 007 caricature than that? It's Andropov-esque!
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this implies that Austin Powers was not good at his job, which is false
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