I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

"Dictatorship to protect corruption" is a plausible master narrative for Trump; it squares well with J6 in particular.

But it's not the same story for Vought, who supports dictatorship to deliver on a hideously unpopular conservative ideological agenda, or Miller, who wants it to do legit fascism.

If you want to know why we can’t give Trump a blank check, look what he did to USAID — illegally dismantling an agency that saved millions of lives and literally burning food meant for starving people.

As I told former USAID staff this week: their work was the best of America.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Two Illinois Guardsmen claim to have sworn an oath over orders, stating that they will not turn on their city

This might actually be THE point where Christian Nationalism starts either splintering...or the NAR literally just joins with Christian Identity and REALLY returns to its roots

(I'd have thought the SBC/NAR widening split would have been the fissure, but a neo-Nazi/NAR split has been growing)

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So. Again. We're talking *core* theology here, every bit as *core* theology as the concept among Catholics that Communion wine and bread turns into the actual blood and body of Christ. Israel HAS to exist, Jewish people HAVE to exist in Israel, or the Second Coming *CAN'T* happen

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