There are plenty of books and resources about what it looks like when countries slide toward fascism, some of which offer solutions on how to stop the rot. What I haven't seen -- and I'm hoping they exist -- are resources; guides; practical manuals on what to do when fascism arrives, despite our best efforts.
There's still some time to procure those, if they exist. Enough for us to internalize them; prepare ourselves for what we may very well face? Maybe; I hope... that's all I currently know how to do.
Jeff you really do a thorough job making certain your ideas are communicated exactly as intended. You fill in the hairline cracks most of us writing types fail to seal, or even recognize. There is little to no room for misinterpretation in your communication - so long as we the audience are listening with a similar level of investment.
I keep telling people this about Republicans in my writing about Project 2025 here. What’s behind 45 is so much more extreme and ugly. I grew up in Christian Nationalism. I know how it subjugates and destroys. And Democrats can’t stop fighting about window-dressing and unite behind the necessity to defeat the fascists now. Whatever happens will be gruesome and ghastly. Thank you for your work.
Thanks for this but I have to disagree with your narrative a bit. 9-11 was not the hinge point of history you posit here.
If Trump v. U.S is a more significant narrative event than J-6 then surely Bush v. Gore was the trap door to the rabbit hole from which we have yet to emerge. There’s even a cruel symmetry to those two “decisions” inasmuch as they’ve now brought us firmly into the phantasmagoria you cite.
Go back and re-read Antonin Scalia’s missive from Hell on 12/10/2000 and tell me what sense it makes as anything but a crude attempt to brutally twist reality to reverse engineer the law and the Constitution to suit his own perverse ends.
The vote counting had to be stopped because the 14th Amendment promised “equal protection”… and the different methods of marking ballots in the different Florida counties violated that principle?
I mean, WTF?
And the icing on the cake was his statement that he, who had once made a great show of solemnly stating that since Supreme Court rulings were nearly sacred inasmuch as they formed precedent for ages and descendants to come, must be issued cautiously and in the broadest terms, now concluded this carnival of tortured trash with the statement that this particular decision was only valid for this particular case and should never ever be exhumed as precedent before any future case.
Again I say, WTF?
The American democratic republic surely ended at 10 PM 12/10/2000 and has obviously never recovered. The headline events up to the present day, 9-11, Katrina, J-6, etc. have just been historical footnotes to that historic betrayal.
Act I that opened with Bush v. Gore has now concluded, appropriately, with Trump v. The United States.
Act II is now about to begin.
That’s the narrative that I’m living in and I’m sorry to say it provides little to no solace but thanks for supplying a framework to organize my feelings a bit.
As always, your insights are powerful but terrifying.
There are plenty of books and resources about what it looks like when countries slide toward fascism, some of which offer solutions on how to stop the rot. What I haven't seen -- and I'm hoping they exist -- are resources; guides; practical manuals on what to do when fascism arrives, despite our best efforts.
There's still some time to procure those, if they exist. Enough for us to internalize them; prepare ourselves for what we may very well face? Maybe; I hope... that's all I currently know how to do.
Jeff you really do a thorough job making certain your ideas are communicated exactly as intended. You fill in the hairline cracks most of us writing types fail to seal, or even recognize. There is little to no room for misinterpretation in your communication - so long as we the audience are listening with a similar level of investment.
Candid is this brilliant telling. Thank you.
Maybe you, Jeff, can explain why in many states felons can't vote; yet a felon can be on the ballot in all states.
I'm glad you're writing here, Jeff. The past few days have been rough and I suspect the worst is yet to come. Please keep going. We need you.
Well said, as always. Thank you for writing. It at least makes me feel like I'm not crazy.
Thank you Jeff. I think you ended it perfectly. I will share this with many people.
I wish you were able to shine your brilliant light on things less dark than what feels like the beginning of the Dark Ages 2.0.
Thanks. There's a very different, unrelated book in the works.
Very depressing, yet somehow comforting, last words.
I keep telling people this about Republicans in my writing about Project 2025 here. What’s behind 45 is so much more extreme and ugly. I grew up in Christian Nationalism. I know how it subjugates and destroys. And Democrats can’t stop fighting about window-dressing and unite behind the necessity to defeat the fascists now. Whatever happens will be gruesome and ghastly. Thank you for your work.
Jeff.
Thanks for this but I have to disagree with your narrative a bit. 9-11 was not the hinge point of history you posit here.
If Trump v. U.S is a more significant narrative event than J-6 then surely Bush v. Gore was the trap door to the rabbit hole from which we have yet to emerge. There’s even a cruel symmetry to those two “decisions” inasmuch as they’ve now brought us firmly into the phantasmagoria you cite.
Go back and re-read Antonin Scalia’s missive from Hell on 12/10/2000 and tell me what sense it makes as anything but a crude attempt to brutally twist reality to reverse engineer the law and the Constitution to suit his own perverse ends.
The vote counting had to be stopped because the 14th Amendment promised “equal protection”… and the different methods of marking ballots in the different Florida counties violated that principle?
I mean, WTF?
And the icing on the cake was his statement that he, who had once made a great show of solemnly stating that since Supreme Court rulings were nearly sacred inasmuch as they formed precedent for ages and descendants to come, must be issued cautiously and in the broadest terms, now concluded this carnival of tortured trash with the statement that this particular decision was only valid for this particular case and should never ever be exhumed as precedent before any future case.
Again I say, WTF?
The American democratic republic surely ended at 10 PM 12/10/2000 and has obviously never recovered. The headline events up to the present day, 9-11, Katrina, J-6, etc. have just been historical footnotes to that historic betrayal.
Act I that opened with Bush v. Gore has now concluded, appropriately, with Trump v. The United States.
Act II is now about to begin.
That’s the narrative that I’m living in and I’m sorry to say it provides little to no solace but thanks for supplying a framework to organize my feelings a bit.
All the best,
Geoff Dewan
Sorry. 12/12/2000
If Trump is just the door, what awaits us at the end of the hallway, in the inner sanctum. May there be dragons?