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Here’s what the good people of Georgia are waking up to this morning - local extremist groups, some aligned w MTG, talking on the record about a sustained insurgency against the US. https://twitter.com/cjoyner/status/1357303286492200961
Read what MTG wrote YESTERDAY, below. She repeats the new MAGA blood libel - that Democrats are an existential threat to the nation, which is why she/other patriots are justified in using violence to stop them. (2/x). https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1357031846706638849
Trump wove all these narratives together, he brought everyone together around the idea Dems/radical left existential threat, he/patriots were going to Save America by keeping them/removing them from power.
MTG isn't just Q - she's MAGA. (3/x) https://simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-have-an-off-ramp-they-need-to-take-it-4ab9de9d5f03
MTG isn't just Q - she's MAGA. (3/x) https://simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-have-an-off-ramp-they-need-to-take-it-4ab9de9d5f03
For MAGA deradicalization to occur, GOP must:
Stop describing Dems as existential threat
Declare the election valid, Biden legitimate
Declare faith in debate/elections not bullets
More, here: (4/x) https://simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-greet-bidens-call-for-unity-with-extremism-1d30066e48fb
Stop describing Dems as existential threat
Declare the election valid, Biden legitimate
Declare faith in debate/elections not bullets
More, here: (4/x) https://simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-greet-bidens-call-for-unity-with-extremism-1d30066e48fb
My fear now, today, is that there is just too much momentum for violence in the post MAGA right.
I worry about the physical safety of Democrats across the country, not just in DC.
For this week the House GOP again choose violence not democracy (5/x). https://www.ndn.org/blog/2021/02/gop-chooses-radicalism-violence
I worry about the physical safety of Democrats across the country, not just in DC.
For this week the House GOP again choose violence not democracy (5/x). https://www.ndn.org/blog/2021/02/gop-chooses-radicalism-violence
As we debate about what to do, we need to develop a sustained strategy to engage/diffuse the radicalization narrative, not just jail/punish people.
Felt this essay by @anneapplebaum was headed in the right direction.
Defeating COVID also matters (6/x). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/seditionists-need-path-back-society/617746/
Felt this essay by @anneapplebaum was headed in the right direction.
Defeating COVID also matters (6/x). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/seditionists-need-path-back-society/617746/
Sat down and talked to noted authoritarian expert, historian @ruthbenghiat about all this earlier this week.
If you have the time the interview is worth watching. She had many important insights into our current moment (7/x). https://www.ndn.org/ben-ghiat/20221
If you have the time the interview is worth watching. She had many important insights into our current moment (7/x). https://www.ndn.org/ben-ghiat/20221
Very smart piece here from @ThePlumLineGS making some of the same points.....(8/x). https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1357360525131268096
