MAGA Movement & Cult

I want to share a thought with you. It may sound strange. It's that the 2020 presidential election may have been the Republican Party's best and last shot of an authoritarian takeover of the country. Now that it has failed, now that a majority of the American people understands what's going on and w...

Trump touted eugenics in Bemidji, Minnesota, praising the "good genes" of his loyalists while bashing Somali refugees and Rep. Ilhan Omar

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The lies came at a rally in Georgia.

Posted in r/politics by u/BuckRowdy • 12,154 points and 1,095 comments

Since authorities revealed the suspect in the killing of Mollie Tibbetts is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Iowa’s Latino communities have been the target of rising anti-immigrant sentiment.

In arguing for a sunset clause to the trade agreement, this odious man is exposing the corruption of liberal democracy, says George Monbiot, a regular contributor to the Guardian

As a scholar of modern German history, I've been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What I saw unfold over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia and then at Bedminster, New Jersey gave me the horrible, sinking ...

Why some people are withdrawing from mainstream society into “intentional communities”—and what the rest of the country can learn from them

Many supporters are defensive about the fact that they tolerated bigotry and hate.

Donald Trump is winning Republican presidential primaries at such a great rate that he seems likely to become the next Republican presidential nominee and perhaps the next president. Democrats have little understanding of why he is winning -- and winning handily; and even many Republicans don't see him as a Republican and are trying to stop him, but don't know how. There are various theories: People are angry and he speaks to their anger. People don't think much of Congress and want a non-politician. Both may be true. The Democratic Party has not been taking seriously many of the reasons for Trump's support and the range of that support. And the media has not been discussing many of the reasons for Trump's support. That needs to change.

Maybe Trump isn’t actually leading a global populist revolt.

If Venezuela or Iran were perpetrating this nightmare, the US would stand against it. Instead, officials are promising more

The pro-Trump Zoomer sees the 2020s as a degenerate age and the ’80s as a time when men were men. It’s why their homemade videos are filled with VHS scan lines, old Gillette commercials, and Van Halen’s “Jump.”

So-called real Americans are screwing up America.

Posted in r/PublicFreakout by u/CantStopPoppin • 90,318 points and 9,767 comments

If Trump wins, extremists in and out of government would immediately be empowered to carry out their far right agenda.