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Colin Woodard
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Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
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Hindenburg's inaugural flight ends in fireworks

WSJ: trump's pennsylvania town hall ends in concert
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‘New York Times’ To Cease Publication theonion.com/new-york-tim...

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Nebraska's Supreme Court effectively helped the GOP secretary of state disenfranchise voters by waiting for months to rule just before the registration deadline. Many of them may not know they regained their rights until it's too late to vote in 2024, when NE has competitive Senate & House races

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Trump is using similar language about “enemies of America” — critics and political opponents — as he does about immigrants. He has threatened to deploy federal forces against both, as he did on a smaller scale when he was president. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Column | Trump wants to punish all of his enemies, not just immigrants
Column | Trump wants to punish all of his enemies, not just immigrants

In recent days, Donald Trump has increasingly described his critics and political opponents in terms suggesting that they, too, would be targeted by his administration.

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Here's the full, chilling quote from Trump's former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, the retired Gen. Mark Milley, in Bob Woodward's new "War." "You have got to stop him! ... He is the most dangerous person to this country. ... A fascist to the core!"

Two days later, on Monday, March 6, 2023, I attended a reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.

“We gotta talk,” General Milley said as I approached him.

Milley was not in uniform but wearing a fashionable dark sports coat and plaid shirt. He had a freshly showered look and he seemed relaxed, though he stood barrel-chested with the ramrod-straight posture of an Army general.

Milley was still worried about Trump.

“No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” Milley said. “Do you realize, do you see what this man is? I glimpsed it when I talked to you back—for Peril, but I now know it. I now know it.”

Milley had shared with me his worries about Trump’s mental stability and control of nuclear weapons for the book Peril I coauthored with Robert Costa.

Milley and I continued to talk, proving it is possible to have a very private conversation in the middle of a crowded room.

“We have got to stop him!” Milley said. “You have got to stop him!” By “you” he meant the press broadly. “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.”

His eyes darted around the room filled with 200 guests of the Cohen Group, a global business consulting firm headed by former defense secretary William Cohen. Cohen and former defense secretary James Mattis spoke at the reception.

“A fascist to the core!” Milley repeated to me.

I will never forget the intensity of his worry.
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Again, you don’t need to ask <if> or <when> 🇺🇸 democracy will backslide. It already has, with the casual normalization of political violence/threats of it. These are well-known telltale signs. It’s just that we’re a deeply parochial unserious country, so we’re in advanced denial of what we’ve become.

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Colin Woodard
@colinwoodard.bsky.social
Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
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