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The reason Republican officials and elites hit the roof when government starts to focus on violent right-wing extremism keeps staring us in the face: all too many officials see militias and extremists as confederates and comrades. https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1350884594036326400
(What also stares us in the face: that the reactionary view of the world, in its overwhelming, all-encompassing tribalism, is … weird. Deeply so.) https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1351591290631237634
Huh, Republican officials have done it again: they heard words addressed to right-wing extremists, and treated them as an insult to the entire GOP.
How weird that this seems to keep happening! Surely it tells us nothing about how Republicans view themselves, though. https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1352293077810110475
How weird that this seems to keep happening! Surely it tells us nothing about how Republicans view themselves, though. https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1352293077810110475
It’s a veritable, ongoing frenzy of people telling on themselves. https://twitter.com/amyspitalnick/status/1352713450976407553
(*ahem*)
As I’ve been saying … https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/republicans-trump-capitol-riot.html
As I’ve been saying … https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/republicans-trump-capitol-riot.html
(^ h/t on the above to @amyspitalnick, whose work in this area has been truly essential:) https://twitter.com/amyspitalnick/status/1355142647556567040
