1. The American right's turn against the military (as "woke" and beholden to CRT) is a pretty significant development, not without precedent & very specifically focused on officer class, but still something new & pregnant with meaning.https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1408216358899183617 …
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5. Desegregating the military was controversial because the right (committed to open racism at that point) thought the military belonged to him. Same with fight over open gays in military. Same now: right things military is their property so it can't be woke.
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6. Beyond the right's anxiety of losing control of institution they see as their own, there's other sources of rift: military resistance to Trump's psycho commands & coup attempts, officer class being college educated, general ranks being disproportionately POC.
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7. The most worrying factor is resentment at Milley & top ranks for their unwillingness to obey Trump as he pushed for martial law. This was crucial for the failure of his coup attempts. The goal now is to cow military so they will be more obedient to GOP POTUS in future.
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8. Defeated armies and movements think hard about causes of defeat. Right now the hard right is a defeated movement. They're thinking about what went wrong and realizing they need to cow the military. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-right-versus-the-military?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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dont apologize
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I opened the thread specifically to look for your cameo when I saw the first tweet.
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its not the Rambo effect its the standard "stab in the back" that the right always trots out after military defeat in multiple countries throughout history, "we could have won" is all that they have left to explain the lost of life, the cause is always just
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I think this is a poor take.
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