Buttadeus: I do think this is true, with an assist from #metoo. And it dragged in a whole lot of centrists, who when push came to shove, decided reactionary terror was better than DEI training.

this is 100 percent right. the SCOTUS decision here is part of Project 2025, it is preemptively helping Trump consolidate his dictatorship crookedtimber.org/2024/07/02/s...

Supreme Court Rules Hitler Immune from Prosecution for Burning Down Reichstag, Seizing Absolute Powercrookedtimber.org If the current Supreme Court had held comparable office in Weimar Germany, that is, its opinion in Trump v. United States would have rendered the judgment in this post’s headline. Never mind …

I sort of wrote about this last week, but SCOTUS does seem to see Trump as a schmittian sovereign

I suppose no surprise in a fascist movement, but wild that *this guy* is their heroic ubermensch, and the crisis worthy of destroying 250 years of democracy is ... uh, some historically meager immigration and trans people drinking a beer?

it's the 2020 protests. i think they fundamentally broke conservatives.

I do think this is true, with an assist from #metoo. And it dragged in a whole lot of centrists, who when push came to shove, decided reactionary terror was better than DEI training.

Speaking of centrists, 9% of Democrats nationwide voted for Trump instead of Hillary n 2016. Those cretins have a lot to answer for.

A lot of enabling from the center due to loathing of the left got us to this point.

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