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    1. corey robin‏Verified account @CoreyRobin 28 May 2021

      corey robin Retweeted Ronald Brownstein

      For decades, German Communists have been damned by liberals/leftists for refusing to cooperate w/Socialists to stop the Nazis. I wonder, for those who buy the fascism analogy to today, how the Dems' failure to cooperate w/themselves will be remembered by history. More than ahttps://twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1397939227128516613 …

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      Ronald BrownsteinVerified account @RonBrownstein
      "Anxiety is growing among a broad range of civil-rights, democracy-reform & liberal groups over whether Democrats are responding w/enough urgency to the accelerating GOP efforts to both suppress voting & potentially overturn future D election victories." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/biden-manchin-gop-voting-rights/619003/ …
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    2. corey robin‏Verified account @CoreyRobin 28 May 2021

      gotcha question, I'm interested in how ideological intransigence gets positioned as criminal (that's the supposed great sin of the KPD) while ideological dissipation gets excused as understandable. Also interested in how serious people are about the fascism analogy, down to

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    3. corey robin‏Verified account @CoreyRobin 28 May 2021

      whether they'd hold the Democrats responsible for allowing the triumph of a supposedly fascist GOP in the same way that they hold the KPD responsible for the triumph of the Nazis.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 May 2021
      Replying to @CoreyRobin

      Resistance liberals probably wouldn't accept the idea of Democratic blame but there's no reason why leftists who believe fascism analysis shouldn't. It's a major problem that Dems are not the type of party that can successful resist authoritarianism.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 May 2021
      Replying to @sunraysunray @CoreyRobin

      I think that's fair but asymmetrical in one important way: American political system already has a lot of authoritarian features supported by both parties (presidential powers, outsized military, patriot act). A GOP president more competent than Trump could exploit.

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      • The 'net is dark and full of terrors Elizalou howard😎 huh what alleged human tza Benny and the Gesserits Femboy Social-check-ins & abolish the police cholula bankhead
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