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kleinbl00  ·  386 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Cult of the January 6 Martyrs

She's one of my favorite journalists right now, but our opinions have diverged greatly when it comes to the threat potential of the remaining Trumpers. She's embedded with them and was chased out of Portland by the Antifa purity-ring there so she's got a little bit of an axe to grind against us poor, poor, benighted liberals. I think that fundamentally she sees teh craziey within the fascists and applies it to the power they had on the assumption that they will have it again... and fundamentally I see teh craziey within the fascists and recognize it as a death spiral.

I've seen this death spiral before. It happened in the wake of Iran-Contra. As soon as Reagan's halo was tarnished the opportunists of the Republican Party started scrambling for Life After Reagan while the guys who had gone all-in went Giuliani on it.

There's a real need among the extremist idealists to presume that the extremist opportunists hold their beliefs for ideological, rather than opportunistic reasons. They're wrong and always have been. Much of politics is executed by people who like the sausage-making. They like the backroom deals. They like the posturing. And, like cockroaches, they survive every nuclear holocaust.

That video up there is the death throes of a movement.