The pivot now is that AES “talked down” to Tommy. Anyone who understands America knows that is code for AES being “uppity” to a White person. He’s supposed to endure disrespect and gotchas and never complain. At baseline, asserting your humanity with self respect will always be read as offensive

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Conservatives get very upset when you answer their question directly, force them to own the subtext of the question, and expose the bad-faith politics underneath all of it. You cannot separate this from the context of the President calling AES a “jihadist” and “Mohammad” at his rallies. You can’t.

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The fact that no one, including Trump, faced any consequences st all for the previous coup attempt was already a sign of the total failure of our constitutional order. The fact that the only answer anyone has now is “hope Democrats win so big that he doesn’t try a second coup” is another.

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Weekend reading: I wrote a brief history of the Right deriding anything that threatens the social and racial hierarchy, any sort of leveling attempt, as "communism" or “socialism.” This week’s piece - about the Right’s attempts to demonize the idea of equality:

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So he's right, given what he's talking about, but also note how the implicit assumption here is that immigrants working in agriculture, construction, etc. aren't skilled immigrants...that's elitist and classist. Microsoft’s president warns White House against skilled immigration crackdown

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