Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”

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        Homelander on ‘The Boys’ Was Always Meant To Be Donald Trump

        The comic series was released in 2006 and concluded in 2012, so that’s doubtful. He was supposed to be the synthesis between European White Nationalism and American Exceptionalism, both of which predate Trump by centuries.

        Starr straight out rejects the notion that the character is just Trump with powers, and tries to get back to why this character is the product of his conditions rather than just a reflection of an IRL ideological peer.

        The through line from this abused and exploited child to an emotionally starved and psychotically included adult is what makes the character fun.

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          The through line from this abused and exploited child to an emotionally starved and psychotically included adult is what makes the character fun.

          You just described DJT though…

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    and his complaints that the GOP was too focused on “religious liberty” instead of “Christian nation-ism.”

    This mouldering motherfucker really thought no one would notice what he was saying if he dropped an “al” from the middle of a word

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        Already registered to vote. I live in a county that’s been pretty carved up to dilute the democratic vote, but I’ll be doing so nonetheless.

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          Note that the congressional maps don’t impact senate and presidential races* - only house and local races

          See a lot of people claim it as a reason for apathy, but it’s worth remembering there’s still a lot of potentially winnable fights even in gerrymandered districts

          * maine and nebraska are exceptions for presidential races due to splitting some of their electoral votes

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        We need to do more. Much more. Trump and his followers are intending to use every means at their disposal, up to and including violence, to achieve a dictatorship. They have already subverted SCOTUS and are moving themselves into position to massively interfere with the election itself. Why the fuck are we still talking like just voting and business-as-usual campaigning is anywhere near enough to counter that?

        Consider the recommendations of this article, for instance (which, frankly, are even themselves toned down compared to what is actually necessary):

        Still, pro-democracy Americans need to be organized en masse as part of a larger project of corporeal politics that will involve massive non-violent protests, nationwide strikes, and other disruptions to the country’s day-to-day routine if Trump and the MAGA Republicans take power in 2025. Pro-democracy civil society organizations must focus their attention on the ongoing coup and widespread right-wing attacks on American democracy and leverage their particular resources and networks to stop it.

        Viewers, listeners, readers, and especially subscribers need to embark upon a public pressure and boycotting campaign if the mainstream news media—and especially the elite agenda-setting news media such as the New York Times and Washington Post—continue with their Trump-MAGA enabling agenda.

        The Republican Party has been fully MAGAfied and needs to be torn down and rebuilt (or outright replaced) in a way that is consistent with basic democratic principles such as respect for the rule of law and civil society.

        In his essay at the New Republic, Rothkopf gives these marching orders to his fellow pro-democracy Americans:

        The Democracy Future Project’s exercises can’t tell us whether the descent into authoritarianism will be fast or slow if Trump wins. Most likely, it will involve a combination of highly visible steps and subtler, possibly even more dangerous changes far from view. But the exercises make it clear that should Trump win in November, there is every reason to expect the worst. And that’s why there is also every reason to prepare for the worst case. If those who care about democracy start coordinating now to shore up democracy’s defenses, we’ll have a fighting chance of slowing or preventing Trump’s most egregious plans should he regain the White House.

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          Honestly, the second people caught wind of what amounts to a literal second coup attempt, they should have been arrested. But since it’s funded by billionaires, people are looking the other way.

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            And that, in and of itself, ought to have justified a march on Washington of millions of non-billionaires.