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Rick Perlstein
@rickperlstein.bsky.social
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"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h
Not true, but with guns, effectual. Please think in terms of fascism, not in terms of winning intellectual debates.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 6h
You are indeed a bad leader when you have to force people to do things.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 6h
"Not available."
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 6h
Reaganland!
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 6h
My point is that: many were. William F. Buckley in particular was privately terrified by the fact.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 6h
I can hardly believe it myself
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h
I posted it to make a point about the biases of elite political media and the imperative to hold the line against them. Exactly as I wrote.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h
If I wrote it today I would have much more about all the internal Goldwater campaign discussions about what to do with all the terrifying fascists and lunatics flocking to him. I feel like I only photocopied like every 5th anguished memo on it, back in the day.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 14h
It's not logic. It's a way to convince themselves people they don't like are subhuman.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 14h
Don't look away. Many of your neighbors may want you dead.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 14h
Nope. Comes from Victor Orban in 2012 crusade to end harm reduction and roll up homeless encampments. The fascist international.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 14h
Sounds like a Doonesbury cartoon.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 14h
Thanks.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 14h
Thanks for your witness, brother. Had enough been written about this?
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
Oh that's interesting!!
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
Until you get where you need to go, proud to have you fighting with us now.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
Not complex, dude.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
Mmmmmmlllggn crackersss
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
Buy me dinner first. ;-)
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
You've all convinced me to look into it. Sigh.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
Oh and there's also lots of money in it.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h
Not really a lie, more like an ideologically endorsed fever dream.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19h
He is antifascist.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19h
I don't think anyone thinks Bray is a fascist.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19h
I mean, I also cover, like, Jake Javits...