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“Red flags for scholars of fascism”
“Red flags for scholars of fascism”
Heather Cox Richardson: “Trump has always invented his stories from whole cloth, but there used to be some way to tie them to reality. Today that seemed to be gone. He was in a fantasy world, and his rhetoric was apocalyptic. It was also bloody in ways that raise huge red flags for scholars of fascism.”
#autocracy#democracy#politics#truth#fascism
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“Red flags for scholars of fascism”
Sanewashing
Sanewashing
Margaret Sullivan, former public editor at The New York Times: “Why does the media sanewash Trump? It’s all a part of the false-equivalence I’ve been writing about here in which candidates are equalized as an ongoing gesture of performative fairness.”
#media#NewYorkTimes#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Sanewashing
Irony alert
Irony alert
J.D. Vance: “I felt like the modern world was constantly in flux. The things that you believed 10 years ago were no longer even acceptable to believe 10 years later.”
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Irony alert
Paul Berman on slogans
Paul Berman on slogans
“Bad faith is when you don’t like the truth so you lie about it. Then you lie about having lied about it. You might even convince yourself that in lying about lying you’re not lying. That’s bad faith. It’s a twisted consciousness. We’re seeing a mass movement for a twisted consciousness.”
#culture#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Paul Berman on slogans
Jared’s verbs
Jared’s verbs
Jared’s verbs (and his demonstrative adjective) claim reality for what’s non-existent. The present king of France is bald.
#grammar#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Jared’s verbs
Science must trump politics
Science must trump politics
Dr. Rick Bright: “Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths. Science, in service to the health and safety of the American people, must always trump politics.”
#politics#science#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Science must trump politics
Turtles all the way down
Turtles all the way down
The paranoid style in American politics is never at a loss for explanations: another layer of theorizing can always be added to support a rickety conspiracy theory. It’s turtles, or theories, all the way down.
#culture#democracy#politics#truth#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Turtles all the way down
“The 4d’s”
“The 4d’s”
“Dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing.”
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“The 4d’s”
Back to the USSR canard
Back to the USSR canard
Hearing the assertion that Bernie and Jane Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union, I thought, What? And then I remembered writing a post about that canard in 2016.
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Back to the USSR canard
Trump* in Colorado
Trump* in Colorado
If you can stand it, Aaron Rupar has short clips from Donald Trump*’s rally last night in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Trump* in Colorado
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
A Times opinion piece by George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson, “We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated,” announces the Lincoln Project.
#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
The Lincoln Project
Represent
Represent
“He can’t look a child in the face and justify why this country is throwing them in cages, so instead he tells us I should go back to the great borough of the Bronx and make it better, and that’s what I’m here to do.”
#Bronx#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Represent
“Others say”
“Others say”
NPR does its listeners no service by presenting “Others say it didn’t happen” as a legitimate point of view.
#NPR#politics#truth
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“Others say”
George Conway on fiduciary obligations
George Conway on fiduciary obligations
“Fiduciaries are people who hold legal obligations of trust, like a trustee of a trust. A trustee must act in the beneficiary’s best interests and not his own. If the trustee fails to do that, the trustee can be removed, even if what the trustee has done is not a crime. So too with a president.”
#politics#truth#democracy#autocracy
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
George Conway on fiduciary obligations