Kevin M. Kruse: One election? — Subium • Bluesky web client

One election?

be straight with me @kevinmkruse.bsky.social. how close is america to this stage:

Unfortunately, that likely applies to the next *several* elections as well. Because these people are not likely to disappear after just a couple losses, and they only need to take control once.

Indeed. There’s no quick fix

There’s always a short drop and a sudden stop for them.

It took everything in me to not just say "oh there's a quick fix alright." LMAO

*delicate cough*

🎵It don't mean a thing If it ain't got that swing🎵

It took decades of nonstop propaganda for things to get as bad as they are. The path back won't be any shorter.

I'm a bit more optimistic. I truly do feel that a massive amount of the current nationalist movement's momentum is centered around the gravity of one very small man. when he passes, I think it takes 50-75% of the movement's energy with him. my friends and I call this "the Biological Solution".

Yeah but I saw Mad Max Fury road and it seems like they got the system down and it might be a while.

oh, yes, they'll be around the rest of our lives. after all, they existed before Donnie, too. I just don't think they'll be winning presidential elections and influencing every election until someone else with Donnie's (bizarre) charisma appears. I don't see *anyone* that fits that bill currently.

Turns out that beating back Nazis and the like is a never ending job.

thank you for the response, and also, fuck.

I am listening to the Myth America audiobook and the chapter on “America First” made me have to lie down for quite a while. Exhausting.

Pace yourself!

That's all the Nazis needed.

I'd argue that most states already have semiHitlers in charge

Florida and Texas for sure!

we may have already passed that moment and they didn’t invite the photographers

I'm not happy with this assessment, professor

I’m not either but here we are

Trump doesn't even dress well enough for the part, this is America, we deserve better tyrants

You never have to hand it to Nazis, but they did have Hugo Boss, I guess

I'm just saying, we deserve a higher class of villains, not these 3rd rate circus clowns

I hear you, though the original nazis were also 3rd rate clowns, just very dangerous ones Even the name "Nazi" wasn't their own word, it was making fun of them being a bunch of backwards hicks

Don’t insult the clowns 🤙🏻

Just like the enslavers had Brooks Brothers.

He's just a fascist by convenience. No need for the aesthetics, except to dog-whistle to the convinced fascists, like his executive order mandating the use of Neoclassical architecture for government building.

Neither am I but I acknowledge its veracity.

Do you have a historical frame of reference that coincides with Project 2025? That “mandate” is pretty terrifying.

1920 25 point Nazi Party Manifesto simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP_2...

NSDAP 25 points manifesto - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediasimple.m.wikipedia.org

want to say that if the USA is one election from this, avoiding another Trump term is the least we can do and only the beginning of our problems. Trump is the shiny object to distract you from the fact of our sheriffs and corporate/police surveillance apparatus, and all the people cheering them on.

We might just be there already Joe ain’t stopping the slow roll towards fascism

To hear leftists talk, that was the last election.

Perilously close to the Reichstag Fire Decree.

January 6th was an attempted Reichstagfeuer.

Pretty clearly it was the Beer Hall Putsch. Now they are all yelling, "We Didn't Start the Fire"

The one in 2016?

2 or 3 elections. As horrible as DJT is, he is not ‘the one’. Whoever that is (and I actually don’t know who that would) will need 5-10 years to ramp up their presence from scratch. Which at least still gives some time to destroy the political machinery, & people that would allow it to be possible.

It was the 2016 for the first one. Look at what the GOP is pushing now.

I'd say more like nein.

Was it the last one?

isn’t that almost tautologically the case for every election in every democracy though

I mean, I suppose there was a microscopic chance Kerry or Romney might wind up going full fascist under far fetched conditions, but the current challenger is broadcasting his blueprint to do so …

in 2008, who would’ve expected Obama to openly extrajudicially assassinate an American citizen? and yet

Michael Dukakis, history's greatest monster. Hypothetically.

Aren’t we there yet ?

It’s already occurred.

This number from back in Obama days. Side note, this video is being suppressed. The search results are being manipulated. I mean, reputation dot com was a vendor & my boss was chairman. Kevin must be running from/for something since Garcetti can’t buy him off anymore. youtu.be/YK0d8ENS__c?...

Chris Matthews Tears Up Kevin James on Hardballyoutu.be Chris Matthews shreds right wing talker Kevin James on Hardball who can't tell him what Neville Chamberlain did wrong even though he's trying to use Chamberlain as a right wing talking point.

*drains glass*

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