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Dems are practiced in the arts of running against the party and party leadership. The GOP’s authoritarian structure is rigid, but brittle.

This is not unlike how an extreme gerrymander can work up until there’s an extreme wave election.

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 2d

Even J6 had analogs in that earlier time:
Colfax, LA 1874
Coushatta, LA 1874
Eufaula, AL 1874
New Orleans 1874 (Battle of Liberty Place)
Wilmington, NC 1898

Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 2d

Ignoring what they say and looking for examples outside of the US when, by words and action, they are telling us what their model is…🤷🏾‍♂️

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 2d

…the white supremacist hierarchy are the models that this current crop of American fascists are explicitly looking back towards as a model society. They’re saying the Civil Rights acts were a mistake and that some people are just meant to be slaves. There is no subtext.

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 2d

That’s in the context of a foreign state. Those examples from our own history serve as clearer examples of fascism in an American context. The Jim Crow south that my grandparents and parents grew up in *was* fascism manifest.

The earlier examples of post-Civil War attempts to reinstate…

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 2d

It also betrays a fundamentally white-centric view of things. The proper analog to what is happening now isn’t Watergate, Iran-Contra, or Iraq. It’s Jim Crow, the Redeemers, and the Klan.

That *those* aren’t the examples they’re reaching for is deeply, deeply telling.

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 2d

Cereal straight out the bag, no milk. Eating it like chips.

a man looks out of a car window with the words like an animal below him

ALT: a man looks out of a car window with the words like an animal below him

media.tenor.com

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been to that market!

Had great arroz de pato (duck rice) and some fantastic raw oysters

Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 3d

He’s also probably in the same age cohort (young Gen-X/early millennial) and from the same kind of privileged background/elite education and has had much more early success than many of those in his peer group.

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 3d

It’s the culmination of the breakdown simultaneously of the post-WWII domestic political consensus and US leadership internationally.

Throw in racial anxiety and class precariousness among certain demographics and you get…*waves hands* all this.

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 3d

True, I suppose.

The active phases of our long national nightmare always coincide with the election of a president that the most conservative among us don’t feel caters to their interests (read: “black people make gains”) combined with extreme hubris among the same.

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 3d

“These are not very bright guys and things got out of hand.”

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Sir Purp @sirpurp.bsky.social · 3d

I’d argue it began with Gingrich and his tantrum shutting down the gov’t in the mid-90s. That was when the GOP gave up any pretense of thinking about the opposition as legitimate.

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