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It turns out to be bad idea for people who have large public microphones to act as if they're venting to their 120 Facebook friends.

 And oh, look, this is a perfect segue to a tweetstorm about my latest column! https://t.co/KLt5LF0H6A
So I've been saying Trump is dangerous basically since the beginning. Not because I thought he was going to cancel elections and become a dictator; I didn't think he had the competence, or American institutions the vulnerability, for that.
I thought he was dangerous because he said stuff no politician could say, and that was corrosive to American democracy in all sorts of ways. What happened on Wednesday doesn't need to itself be a coup in order to pose a mortal long-term danger to the Republic.
Also I didn't want the impulsive, belligerent narcissist to have access to nuclear launch codes, but that's a discussion for another time.
I got pushback over and over. "It's just words! He doesn't *do* anything."
But as we saw vividly demonstrated on Wednesday, words are how political leaders encourage their followers to do dangerous, anti-democratic stuff. There's a reason we freak out when political leaders say those kinds of words.
It's hard for politicians to get their supporters to attack congress using semaphore, or mime, or waggling their butt like a bee on a nectar high. In forbidding politicians to make certain kinds of utterances, we are making our democratic institutions safer in a very concrete way
In retrospect, I think one reason this was so hard for his supporters to take was that they perceived this tut-tutting as an attack on *them and their friends*, who were often saying some pretty extreme stuff at parties or on Facebook.
And before my lefty followers sound the domestic terrorism alarm, let me point out that I have heard some truly blood-curdling rage-storms from left-leaning friends. Lots of folks say stuff in the heat of an emotional moment that they would never really do, or support.
I myself once suggested to a German bank president that people who drive the speed limit in the left-hand lane should face a firing squad. I had a little whiskey in me and was feeling puckish. I am also vehemently opposed to the death penalty for any crime at all.
And most of the time it is basically harmless when ordinary folks swap their theories about how the election was actually stolen. Democrats who just got mad at me for saying this, should remember those hobbyists were all on the left in 2004, and very numerous. Nothing came of it
These things become more dangerous the closer they get to power. It was, in fact, deeply offensive and unpatriotic when Barbara Boxer alluded to a voting machine conspiracy theory in congress, and Democrats should have stomped on it, hard.

However.
It was way more dangerous when Trump signaled that he was willing to dive deep into this stuff and wallow in it, rather than performing a little quickie fan service for the conspiracy theory LARPers on the party fringe.
Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way. Way.

More dangerous.
Trump didn't raise an objection on the floor that almost no one ever heard. He used his megaphone--the largest megaphone in the world--to sell a baseless conspiracy to his followers. And then spur the truest believers to act on it.
IT takes a politician to form that kind of focal point. Most people idly swapping calumny with like-minded friends would never dream of doing something about it; even the ones who do wouldn't have any particular ideas abotu what to do.
Yes, some tiny number might turn to individual acts of terror, which is awful. But for a concerted attack on Democracy itself, you need a figure like Trump.
Now, we got lucky in multiple wasys: Trump is not very competent or hard-working, and thus his attacks were badly planned & executed; US institutions are strong, and wouldn't let them succeed; and he is old and doesn't have time to rebuild his movement and come back in 10 years
But American institutions are strong in significant part because we don't let politicians act like Donald Trump, particularly not when they get close to the white house. It's not a law of nature; it's something we're actively doing. If we stop doing it, we lose our immunity.
Anyway, point is that it was possible to think that what Trump was doing was immoral and evil, and that the man himself was unfit, while recognizing that regular people saying quite similar things on Facebook were neither a threat to democracy, nor necessarily awful human beings.
(Some percentage of people saying anything on Facebook, even "I like puppies", will be awful human beings, of course.)
I'm not sure it was ever possible to communicate that distinction to Trump's followers. It would have been especially hard because of course many on the left resist making that distinction, and are even now winding up to tell me I'm a despicable apologist for whatever.
Still, I think it might have helped separate Trump from his followers if we'd been clearer that the expectations are higher for someone holding higher office--as we now see, for good reason--and were not out to get them, even if they were saying some of the same stuff.
Maybe not, of course; my husband thinks I'm a hopeless utopian. But I wish we'd tried.

Anyway, the column itself is on *why* all the taboos Trump violated were good and necessary--something that should have gone without saying, but obviously didn't. So:

https://t.co/KLt5LF0H6A

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David Bier
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Long thread: Because I couldn’t find anything comprehensive, I’m just going to post everything I’ve seen in the news/Twitter about Trump’s activities related to the Jan 6th insurrection. I think the timing & context of his actions/inactions will matter a lot for a senate trial.

12/12: The earlier DC protest over the electoral college vote during clearly inspired Jan 6th. On Dec 12th, he tweeted: “Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA.”


12/19: Trump announces the Jan. 6th event by tweeting, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Immediately, insurrectionists begin to discuss the “Wild Protest.” Just 2 days later, this UK political analyst predicts the violence


12/26-27: Trump announces his participation on Twitter. On Dec. 29, the FBI sends out a nationwide bulletin warning legislatures about attacks https://t.co/Lgl4yk5aO1


1/1: Trump tweets the time of his protest. Then he retweets “The calvary is coming” on Jan. 6!” Sounds like a war? About this time, the FBI begins visiting right wing extremists to tell them not to go--does the FBI tell the president? https://t.co/3OxnB2AHdr
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Savanna’s Act & The Not Invisible Act become law today. These laws start to address the epidemic of missing & murdered Indigenous women. Trump is taking credit for it but their passage is the result of the tireless work of Native women & their allies, including women in Congress.

There is little data available regarding #MMIW & a problem that these laws will help fix. The data we do have is astonishing. Native women are murdered at 10X the national average & it’s the 3rd leading cause of death for Native women age 10-24. Experts say these figures are low.

The Trump administration uses #MMIW as a prop & shield while they plunder Native lands, desecrate sacred sites, forgo Tribal consultation, threaten us, disestablish Tribes & target Tribal sovereignty by attempting to give control of our homelands to states (see EPA letter to OK).

Every Native family on the Reservation knows a Native girl, woman or transperson who has gone missing or was murdered. This has gone on for decades & action on it is a long time coming but give credit where its due—with the Tribes, Native women & Congresswomen who made it happen.

Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act with provisions to help protect Native women! #VAWA4All #SavannasAct #NotInvisibleAct #MMIW
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Ian Dunt
Ian Dunt
@IanDunt
Trump has left the White House.

God what a lovely sentence to type. I might do it again.

Trump has left the White House.

Lovely. I didn't know fingers on keys could feel that good.

Is there a more beautiful sentence? I suspect not.
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emptywheel
emptywheel
@emptywheel
Oh huh. Trump's defense isn't going to address the impeachment case (and seems to ignore his demands of Mike Pence again).

Michael Van der Veen pretending that 61 losses is normal.

And, again, note that he didn't address Trump's unconstitutional request of Mike Pence.

Van der Veen lies about who asked for recounts in 2016.

And lies about Hillary's claims about Russia.

Trump's video is made in the style of propaganda, taken out of context.

Van der Veen now trying to make much of tweets Trump didn't send until hours too late.
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A.R. Moxon
A.R. Moxon
@JuliusGoat
The Great American Forgetting Project starts today. They're going to simultaneously try to tell us the last four years were an aberration that is over, and that it never happened.

And it's natural to want to forget these awful years.

It's our moral duty not to.


Those who benefit from our country's malicious priorities will do everything they can now to get us to forget how incontrovertibly Trump exposed those priorities.

Many of us thought we were something better than we were, but now we know.

We've seen our nation's face.


And many among us knew the truth all along. Many of us always saw our nation unmasked, because they were the ones who suffered it.

They told us all along, and the rest of us didn't listen.

Now that they've been proven correct, we're going to be asked to not listen again.


We can't deny anymore, that there are people among us, everywhere, for whom no lie is so obvious they won't believe it, as long as they think it serves their ends.

They don't care about truth, and never did.

We should care about truth, and speak it plain.

This is us.


We've seen our national tolerance for open racism, for cruelty, for corruption, for false equivocation.

Not just the tolerance, but the enthusiasm.

Trump didn't create it. It was there. He exploited it.

We'll never become what we want to be if we don't admit what we are.
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