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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
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ICYMI on the weekend: I wrote about how Project 2025 broke through the noise and became a toxic brand.   There is an important lesson here about how to cover and discuss the radicalizing Right.   Some thoughts from my new piece:   🧵1/

How Project 2025 Became Toxic and Exposed the Right’s Toxicity
How Project 2025 Became Toxic and Exposed the Right’s Toxicity

The public history of Project 2025 reveals a lot about how Trump understands power - and how the mainstream discourse (mis-) understands the extreme Right

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Project 2025 not only remains an excellent window into where the Right currently stands ideologically, it also focuses our attention on who the people leading the reactionary authoritarian charge are – a toxic bunch, driven by the desire to dominate others. 2/

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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
13.4k followers432 following3.8k posts