Seth D. Michaels: once you realize the implied baseline of “more than half of Americans have no rights that Real Americans are bound to respect” then everything about the Stefanik-Jordan-Trump GOP makes more sense

this piece from Claremont is a real skeleton key to Trumpist thinking: americanmind.org/salvo/why-th...

stuff like Elise Stefanik saying “Jim Jordan is the speaker for We the People” all makes a lot more sense when you account for the fact that the Trumpist GOP thinks that many, even a majority, of Americans don’t or shouldn’t count as “the People”

once you realize the implied baseline of “more than half of Americans have no rights that Real Americans are bound to respect” then everything about the Stefanik-Jordan-Trump GOP makes more sense

This line by Douglas Kelley, the chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg during the trials, and interviewer of folks like Goering, has stuck with me ever since I read it.

And here we almost are.

the word "even", as in "even in America" has become the most sad and haunting element of the quote.

I am truly terrified of what the next decade will bring.

I think we need to be concerned and worried, but for all the dreams and wishes of the MAGA crowd and some others, I don't think the US is an easy comparison to Germany of the interwar period. Our military isn't predisposed to ethnic nationalism, our military culture is more democratic, etc.

The increasing number if white men who feel empowered to walk into public places and shoot everyone who looks like me is terrifying even if we don't end up with an exact replica of WWII Germany.

1000%, no disagreement there. Even if it isn't the familiar Nazi machine, and even if the US military is multi-ethnic in membership and leadership, that doesn't mean that multiple US states would be keen to take the opportunity of a second Trump term to implement white-led terror.

I’m not so sure that the US military isn’t predisposed to ethnic nationalism. Its been a growing problem for years and when you add In the Guard and police forces, well looks pretty bad to me.

Americans aren’t worried about white nationalism in the military – because they don’t know it’s theretheconversation.com People typically underestimate how much white nationalism goes on in the military, but when they learn the truth, they’re concerned.

There's been a long-time problem of white nationalists in the military, stretching back decades. I don't agree with the journalistic practice in that piece. 22-36% of service members witnessed white nationalism (which is a problem!), but that isn't at all the same as the military being predisposed.

I’m inclined to include all armed forces, military and paramilitary, into one bucket do for me the racism of police, border patrol etc. overwhelm the diversity of the army etc. The US has plenty of organised armed forces riddled with hate.

Look how many will piss on the corpses of murdered children for their gun fetish.

Adding that book to my to-read list with a whole lot of trepidation.

In the run up to America joining the Allies, there were massive pro-nazi rallies in the US.

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