The most ignorant people supported Donald Trump last election.
That's extremely concerning, but it also is a cause for hope since these people were misled about Trump's extremism. A properly marketed left can defeat Trump's unpopular and extremist beliefs. https://www.dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/11/14/what-political-news-engagement-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-victory
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Trump's biggest lie ever in 2024 was that he had no connection to Project 2025.
Political independents who were tricked into supporting Trump didn't sign up for far right anti-government zealotry. Please share with people you know who incorrectly thought Trump was "moderate."
Believe it or not, many of Trump's voters actually thought he was more of a centrist than Harris https://time.com/7209901/donald-trump-executive-actions-project-2025/
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In the latest "Theory of Change" episode, @chrislehmann and I discussed the contradictory nature of what Trump's voters want from him, and also why Democrats are so unwilling to meaningfully critique and challenge Trump.
Full link: https://plus.flux.community/p/trump-wont-deliver-for-voters-but
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The idea of a socialist/communist revolution happening in a militarized nation with a hypercompetent reactionary political class is a childish fantasy, even stupider than belief in the rapture.
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To understand Republicans' ideas and motivations, read Friedrich Nietzche.
It's all there: Why they're doing it, how they popularize ideas, and the weaknesses of democracy they exploit.
Great overview here: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/nietzsche-in-his-time-the-struggle-against-socratism-and-socialism/
[#]philosophy #democracy #socialism
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Bradford Blackmon, a Mississippi Democratic state senator, just filed a hilarious but actually important troll bill to ban male masturbation to highlight absurd and tyrannical Republican desires to ban birth control and in vitro fertilization https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938
[#]abortionrights #lgbtq
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In tyrannical rant on Truthless Social, Donald Trump showed once again that Republicans love political censorship by demanding that MSNBC be shut down.
This is what actual cancel culture looks like, the president demanding legal termination of critical media.
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Gen Z is the least white generation ever, but young men voted Republican at the highest level in 20 years because of YouTube brainwashing by right wing podcasters.
And no one with money on the left gives a shit about it.
I wish people like me could get through somehow to the donors. This article is devastating https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/
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On his first day in office, Donald Trump also gave a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, a defunct illegal marketplace for child pornography, cocaine, and kill hits who tried his own hand at hiring for murder.
https://sfist.com/2025/01/22/trump-pardons-ross-ulbricht-kingpin-of-the-bitcoin-drugs-and-murder-online-market-silk-road/
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Donald Trump's pardons to the Capitol terrorists who assaulted police, utilized illegal firearms, and smeared feces should tell Americans that his rhetoric about "law & order" & "rule of law" were manipulative lies.
Democrats will need to tell the story, constantly, otherwise it will not matter. https://plus.flux.community/p/with-january-6-pardons-trump-shows
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Already failing: Trump's bizarre and low-energy inauguration earned ratings that were 33% lower than Joe Biden's https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/trump-inauguration-2025-tv-ratings-1236113911/
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What do the broligarchs want? Absolute power https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395646/trump-inauguration-broligarchs-musk-zuckerberg-bezos-thiel
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Cecile Richards, RIP https://newrepublic.com/article/190473/cecile-richards-obituary-great-feminist-institution-builder
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Trump's public speeches and promises mean nothing. Don't waste your time paying attention to them.
Focus on his executive orders and the actual legislation he's pushing. This EO is pure authoritarianism, a massive investigation into supposed "censorship" https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-freedom-of-speech-and-ending-federal-censorship/
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Repressed male homoeroticism is the main energy source of the Republican party.
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Democrats keep failing to have national appeal because they don't understand that many people hate abstract thinking.
As a result, Democrats become the party of Lisa Simpson while Republicans have become Bart Simpson.
Lisa is smarter and kinder, but she had no friends because she lacks social skills.
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Most Americans, and most Republicans, don't have confidence that Donald Trump can lower food prices.
The only way to broadly lower prices is a recession. But enough people believed Trump's deceitful promises (which he's already walked back on) that he won.
https://apnorc.org/projects/most-adults-are-skeptical-that-trump-can-address-costs-and-other-economic-issues/
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[#]Philosophy is the business of giving voice to millions of people's thoughts, without any of them realizing it.
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One of the most incessant statements you hear from right-wingers is that they think the left pathologizes their ideas and motivations.
But as usual, this is just deflection.
Reactionaries absolutely love pathologizing progressives. But they're really terrible at it since they don't have sociological data, so usually it just devolves into fundamentalist gibberish, as in this profile of historian Niall Ferguson.
It's absolutely laughable: https://archive.ph/RoSNu
[#]uk #mediastudies
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Just like he did last time, Donald Trump is inheriting an economy that's doing great.
He lied to people that he'd bring prices down. It won't happen (he may even raise them), but low information people will forget unless they're reminded frequently https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/us/politics/trump-us-disaster-numbers.html
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