"My primary concern with fascists is defeating their political project. I am unapologetic that I have more moral concern for their victims than I do for them."
Nice @polphilpod.bsky.social meditation on centrists' (unacknowledged) instinct to appease fascists
www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...
Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War.
Our exchange on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2102...
Crucial point from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: Dems must proceed as if there is *nothing* Republican judges won't do, no matter how corrupt and contrary to law, to assist in the right wing's illicit consolidation of power.
(Discusses my reporting on Virginia)
www.offmessage.net/p/a-terrible...
Adding to @polphilpod.bsky.social's argument about the Reform Party as a fundamentally corrupt party: As @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and I got into on @liberalcurrents.com pod, corruption is intrinsic to right wing populism's friend/enemy politics. We hit that here:
youtu.be/CB7JMSCE7r4?...
Understand politics with this one weird trick: just tell the truth about the far right.
I asked Virginia State Senate leader Scott Surovell why Republicans always seem to find a way around such procedural obstacles whereas Dems are so often stymied by them.
The exchange got interesting:
newrepublic.com/article/2102...
