I would say the same thing I have said all along, that Americans are in a war they don't want to admit has been going on since at least 2014, and it's part of a global far-right plot to destroy democracy with the enthusiastic help of Facebook, Google, and Twitter
What would you say if you saw it in another country? Trump/allies are "prepar[ing] to take control of the government in a way unseen in modern presidential history" by installing "Trump loyalists who may see the law as malleable" & "view White House authority to direct the Justice Dept. as proper"
Politically appointed lawyers sometimes frustrated Donald J. Trump’s ambitions. His allies are planning to install more aggressive legal gatekeepers if he regains the White House.
you can use fear, abuse and intimidation to make a guy run headlong into machine gun fire but you can't use it to make someone follow a thankless and tedious maintainence schedule without cutting corners.
my buddy @svmiller.bsky.social and i have half a book project completed that illustrates that a general form of ethno-religious social prejudice ("not my neighbor") is a pretty damn good predictor of anti-democratic beliefs. below, some figures from a paper on which the proj is based. polisky.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I should put a sign on my office door that says "no sushi, on vacation for two weeks in Spain" to see if I can get away with it.
Arguably the biggest culture shock moving here from the United States is how commonplace it is for restaurants to close for a week (or two or three) because the people who run it are on holiday (in Spain, no less). Completely alien concept in the U.S., especially for this industry.
Apparently y’all are burning up in the states. It got bone-chilling here in a matter of about two weeks.
Spiciest blind quote from a Smithsonian official in history
