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He wants to steal all the oil in Venezuela. He wants to interfere in foreign elections to keep his dictator cronies in office, lest they lose power and find themselves facing prison. And when Trump's allies *do* face justice, he wants to fire the judges who dare hold these corrupt, powerful men to account.
So when the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump had Microsoft shut down the court's IT systems.
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There must be a better way to hold together a big coalition than love or hate of a charismatic cult leader. If the best we can do right now for an organizing principle is being anti-Trump, we need to come up with something better before he's gone. Getting rid of the Trumpists is just the first step of many in restoring democracy.
@pluralistic I haven't been able to get this image out of my head ever since I learned about it. THIS is the kind of coalition building the establishment truly fears, and they fucking murdered Fred Hampton for it.
Trump is a master coalition builder. He wouldn't have been able to seize and wield so much power without a coalition that includes people who *absolutely hate each other and want each other to die*. Let's face it, Nick Fuentes wants to turn Ben Shapiro into a lampshade, but they both sent their followers to the ballot box for Trump.
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We've all seen those videos of Trump supporters railing against "elites" after watching the richest man on Earth cavorting with Trump while promising to give all of their jobs to AI and robots.
This contradiction isn't a bug, it's a feature: the bigger a coalition gets, the more power it has - provided you've got a Trump figure at the top, using his cult of personality to coerce and flatter his coalition members into playing nice with each other.
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But Trump's incontinent belligerence, his bullying, and his cognitive decline mean that he's conjuring a new *anti*-Trump coalition into existence: groups of people who don't agree on much, but *do* agree on fighting Trumpismo and its leader. This is very visible in US domestic politics, where "Never-Trumper" conservatives find themselves on the same side as Democratic Socialists, at least on this narrow issue.
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@pluralistic You make an excellent point here, as usual. But please understand that I can’t send this to my Trump-supporting family members because they will stop reading at the word “incontinent.”
The anti-Trump mass mobilizations - the Women's March, the anti-ICE demonstrations, the No Kings rallies - are visibly, palpably coalitional, made up of people carrying signs and banners for groups that are often at odds with one another...except when it comes to Trump.
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