I find Ian Kershaw’s concept of “working towards the Führer” most helpful in understanding the Trump administrationhttps://goo.gl/ZtCwpP
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The fight to defeat Trump is a race against the clock before competent people rise in his shadow. We’ve gotten a bit complacent about that this year, because Trump and the circus surrounding him are so ineffective and unserious. But the serious people are coming.
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Failing to win the midterm elections decisively—crushingly—would not only validate all the buffoonery and tawdriness of the last year, but embolden a rising generation of skillful, morally unencumbered young jackals waiting in the wings of American politics.
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All dictators are to some degree ridiculous. Stalin fancied himself a master linguist. Romanian chemists had to add Elena Ceaușescu's name to their papers to get them published. Ridiculousness offers no protection against tyranny.
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There are a lot of things that can thwart Trump personally—impeachment, indictment, a McNugget willing to take one for the team. But the only thing that can check the rise of that capable next generation of authoritarians is a cataclysmic defeat at the polls this November.
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I've been raising money for political campaigns not because of a sudden fascination with Congressional politics, but because I think this is a desperate fight that we are not doing enough to win. Please join me, whether by giving money, or time, or both.https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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It's also how narcissists operate.
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We’re well past the point of needing Godwin’s Law disclaimers, with actual Nazis marching in the streets and murdering people
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Trump and Hitler occupy a different moral universe. Hence the disclaimer.
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And if their institutional structure is already toxic (e.g. ICE) then you get... everything ICE has done this past year.
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