Nicholas Grossman
@NGrossman81
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Senior Editor @ArcDigi. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
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https://www.arcdigital.media/ 24-04-2015 16:48:39
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'A generation of young Republican staff members appears to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.'
-David Austin Walsh
It's not Nazi symbols per se, it's what people into them would do in power
nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opi…
The Trump campaign 'Unified Reich' video doesn't matter much on its own. Staffer, WWI reference, now taken down.
But it's not on its own. It's one tree in a forest. As Greg Sargent argues, it's the broader acculturation to fascistic rhetoric that matters.
newrepublic.com/article/181843…
The US is further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize.
Trump already fought 9 battles with the institutions of democracy, winning 7. Reelection is the only barrier left.
I'm in Arc Digital, with blunt talk about what America's facing.
arcdigital.media/p/the-institut…
Also from Nicholas Grossman: When Trump signaled to Putin to only release his captive 'for me,' it was similar to 'where he said, Russia, if you're listening, hack Hillary.'
He's doing this 'openly' with 'a country he has known corrupt ties to.'
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newrepublic.com/article/181910…