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    1. Ezra Klein‏Verified account @ezraklein 20 Sep 2021

      Ezra Klein Retweeted Christian Vanderbrouk  🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌻

      There's a lot of laughing about how implausible this is but coups are ultimately about power. You need something to say, and then you need the power to enforce that reality. This was just the "something to say." If Trump had the power to enforce it, he would've tried it.https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1440062663967461387 …

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      Christian Vanderbrouk  🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌻Verified account @UrbanAchievr
      This is the six-point plan advanced by Trump lawyer John Eastman for VP Pence to overturn the election on January 6th. http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/09/20/eastman.memo.pdf … pic.twitter.com/CXWTVY1LL7
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    2. Ezra Klein‏Verified account @ezraklein 20 Sep 2021

      One thing I would like the political system to learn from Trump, and all of history, is that political catastrophe often comes wrapped in farcical packages. The ridiculousness is a feature, not a bug. It keeps people from taking the threat seriously till too late.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Sep 2021
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      The best explanation of this remains Adorno's: that buffoonery is part of the message of authoritarianism. It's a way of saying that respectable democratic liberal society is a joke.pic.twitter.com/qpC0Ozdwcy

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        2. Jamie Dissent‏ @JamesDissent 20 Sep 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ezraklein

          That is a brilliant excerpt. Thank you for posting, Jeet.

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        1. Derek Nystrom‏ @dereknystrom1 20 Sep 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ezraklein

          This is an amazing passage.

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        1. John Holbo‏ @jholbo1 20 Sep 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ezraklein

          This is a great quote but I can't decide whether the point should be broadened to include, in effect, the whole counter-Enlightenment. There is a longer tradition of lampooning reason as a joke.

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        2. Brooke Harrington‏Verified account @EBHarrington 20 Sep 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ezraklein

          What's the appeal of a "fictitious, shabby imitation of real feeling?" I've seen this up close in the fascists in my own family, so I know this description is right on the money. But I'm still baffled that anyone prefers this to genuine feeling. Any insight would be appreciated!

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        3. This isn’t a dream. This is really happening.‏ @6pounddog 20 Sep 2021
          Replying to @EBHarrington @HeerJeet @ezraklein

          Fear of “‘real feeling’”?

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        1. F. Tweet Fitzgerald‏ @ShaneMenken 21 Sep 2021
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          More people need to read Adorno.

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        1. Maford‏ @mappingxyz 21 Sep 2021
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          They are excited and having Fun. Fun raises them up to a level of hope…and that’s powerful.

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        1. ShawnM‏ @ShawnMTweets 22 Sep 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joncoopertweets @ezraklein

          Isn’t “being ridiculous all together” also a societal bonding thing? En masse it is extremely powerful.

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