“Fascism rises from desperation, a crisis of essentials” no it doesn’t. No it isn’t. It rises from guys wanting to look cool and be cruel

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It mostly depends on how you define "Liberals", "Fascists", or "Socialists", none of which are Platonic entities.

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I wrote about a crucial Texas race you might not be paying attention to: who replaces Ken Paxton as Texas AG in one of the most influential such offices in the country, one Paxton has used to persecute whichever groups the GOP happens to be targeting www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Tbf I think the nonsense for the rubes, Machiavellian capitalist imperialists in the backrooms was a genuinely good model of Bush II and that's when I came of age so I think I just over indexed on my childhood.

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yes. the revelation of the modern era is that the smoke-filled rooms were not filled with Mycrofts calmly playing the game of state, just two dumb bitches telling each other exaaaactly the actual rooms keeping the world afloat are spreadsheet farms staffed by Freds & Carlas who "knows cargo ships"

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