They really think that if half of Trump's base pretends it didn't happen, was a trap, or was fake, then we're not allowed to do anything about it and no one is allowed to care.
I have come around to the idea that people respond politically to their narrative about themselves and their place in the world and to perceived threats to that. All politics is thus identity politics.
"North America cannot accommodate huge additional numbers—it is now quite fully occupied, with scarcely any virgin land or untapped resources awaiting settlers." -John Tanton in the Social Contract Press, which he started bridge.georgetown.edu/research/fac...
IMPACT: John Tanton (1934–2019) was an American ophthalmologist, environmentalist, eugenicist, and anti-immigration activist. He advocated population control, English-only policies, and immigration re...
![In the immediate post-election period, while the defendant claimed fraud without proof,
his private operatives sought to create chaos, rather than seek clarity, at polling places where states
were continuing to tabulate votes. For example, on November 4, PS
-a Campaign employee,
agent, and co-conspirator of the defendant-tried to sow confusion when the ongoing vote count
at the TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, looked unfavorable for the defendant. There, when a colleague at the TCF Center told PS "We think [a batch of votes heavily in Biden's favor is] right,"!?
responded, "find a reason it isnt," "give me options to file litigation," and "even
if itbis [sic]."18 When the colleague suggested that there was about to be unrest reminiscent of the Brooks Brothers Riot," a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential
election,
responded, "Make them riot" and "Do it!!!" The defendant's Campaign
operatives and supporters used similar tactics at other tabulati](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreierd5rvdxyoms4bumdnyjumhbocgco5bc4demlhlvwo5f7brfzw4a@jpeg)
Trump's work to normalize violence among his supporters is working, even when the target is a fellow Republican. Look at what they are doing to *a lifelong Republican and two-time Trump voter* who merely said that Haitian workers at his business do a good job: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u...
Also, I think knowing Chris died in real life has to change the way the book lands.
The last time I read the book, it felt like a tragedy, the way he wasted so much chasing a ghost his mind tricked himself into seeing (a philosophy with a broken foundation). When I was younger, I read it more aligned to my fascination with the philosophy and the challenge of understanding it.
We have done an absurdly bad job holding our leaders accountable for crimes and it's gonna keep costing us until we start doing a slightly less bad job
If only there were some kind of constitutional provision prohibiting people who attempt insurrections from running for president