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What Makes “Project 2025” So Dangerousthomaszimmer.substack.com Will the Right be able to implement these radical plans? Is Trump on board? What happened to traditional conservatism? Let’s tackle some of the key questions surrounding “Project 2025”

That’s, ultimately, what worries me most about all of this - what I’ve been trying to emphasize in my writing about “Project 2025”: Too many people think a second Trump term would “just” be more of the same. They haven’t been paying attention. It would be something very different.

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Back in power, the radical Right could count on a reactionary supermajority on the Supreme Court - something they didn’t have during Trump’s first term. Today’s disastrous, truly extreme immunity ruling should be an urgent reminder of what an absolute game-changer that is. 2/

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An argument I’ve been trying to make about “Project 2025”: A second Trump term would be worse not only because the radical Right would be better prepared, but also because they would be operating under much more favorable circumstances. With a much more extreme Supreme Court, for instance. 1/

I am reading a new biography of French essayist and thinker Michel de Montaigne.* They just referred to the death of a person "inebriated and surrounded by wenches" and just learning this is a possibile way to go out cheered me up. (*Yes, this is why I'm always surrounded by all the hot babes.)

Never let it be said that I don’t take full advantage of modern technological advancements to benefit the expansion of human knowledge.

These “both parties are the same” idiots need to shut the fuck up and read some history. But they won’t. And they won’t. And even if they did their idiotic and dangerous smugness would continue unabated. 🤬

For some odd reason people look to me to be calm and sensible in times of crisis. This is a horrible mistake on their part.

Cognitive Dissonance: Me believing in the non-violence teachings of Mahatma Gandhi yet wanting to slap everybody who says “Things can’t possibly get any worse.”

“Back off, Pardner this isn’t my first societal collapse.”

Chicken Little was an optimist. 😡

I say this with a heavy heart and after considerable deliberate thought and with the greatest amount of optimism that I can possibly muster: We are so fucked. So terribly fucked.

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Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substackwww.lawdork.com The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Two immediate thoughts: - Presidents have been able to get away with *a lot*, so to some extent, this codifies the (very, very bad!) status quo - BUT ALSO: To officially codify presidential immunity in this way, with reference to this specific situation (an attempted coup!) is utterly terrifying

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds, 6-3, that a former president is absolutely immune from prosecution for actions within their "conclusive and preclusive" authority and presumptively immune from prosecution for all official acts. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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Another day in which I better stay away from sharp objects and open windows.

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Pretty clear that the Federalist Society project to take over the courts for the far right is the most successful and consequential political effort in history. Only took them a few decades. Meanwhile, Dems are like "Let's not be hasty, blue slips serve an important function in preserving comity."

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Dissent in Immunity ruling. 1/2 “Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends…

The US Supreme Court ruled today 6-3 that Beer Halls have no immunity from being putched.

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To be very clear: I am not criticizing “the Left,” which doesn’t exist as a monolithic bloc. My issue is with this specific camp, and as much as they like to pretend they do, they really don’t represent “the Left.” In fact, they hate lefties who disagree with them at least as much as “the Libs.”

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The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problemthomaszimmer.substack.com Prominent leftwing intellectuals are allowing their singular, disdain-driven focus on (neo-) liberalism to completely distort their perspective on the Right

The problem is that their devotion to this anti-liberal struggle has led them to propagating positions that are completely untethered from what is happening on the Right – sophistry in defense of a premise that is utterly at odds with empirical evidence. thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-anti-l...

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To them, the fascism talk is intended to make people flock to the liberal cause; to expand power by using tyrannophobia as a way of entrenching liberal rule. It’s all just liberal dishonesty, self-exculpation, and self-aggrandizement that needs to be opposed aggressively.

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In their view, Liberals are using the “fascism” bogeyman as a way to distract from their own culpability; to discipline the Left into accepting a popular front under liberal leadership; to reinvigorate the (neo-) liberal project by conjuring fears of the ultimate evil.

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That’s also why this camp of leftwing intellectuals is stubbornly refusing to engage seriously with the fascism argument and the radicalizing tendencies on the Right. Their overriding concern is a political struggle against what they believe is the real enemy: The (neo-) liberal elites.

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