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by user____name 262 days ago
What I don't get is why the US media seems to keep talking about these things in terms of "left" and "right". Trump uses terms like "far left extremists" to designate large swaths of people who are clearly right of center, they're just not on the MAGA side. The average conservative or liberal pro-business party in Europe would be designated as "Marxist" or whatever by the GOP these days. But the media seems to go along with this and refer to every one to the left of Trump as "the" left?
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burnt-resistor 262 days ago
"Far left extremists" is a dogwhistle used by non-POTUS/non-VEEP parts of the regime to avoid running afoul of the Hatch Act. 47 sometimes adds "Democrats" but that's not illegal per the law. The whole point is to demonize the other party priming the population and apparatus for the purges or "final solution" they intend to wield against non-MAGA politicians.
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jacquesm 262 days ago
That's the whole trick. If you redefine everything that isn't MAGA as 'left' you just whitewashed your own reputation to 'right' instead of 'fascist'/'right wing extremist'.
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burnt-resistor 262 days ago
Yes. Well, and now everyone who isn't MAGA or disagrees is a "terrorist" subject to deportation and/or stripping of citizenship.

I hope that room full of generals and master chiefs in Quantico agreed to secretly back-channel with each other such that they have a "break glass" plan of mass refusal to execute illegal orders per UCMJ.

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