RIP to the #Heritage #Foundation, which functionally died this week,
as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit.
The Suspect: President Trump and his posse of online shitposters.
The weapon: Antisemitism.
The room: Phoenix Convention Center.
Having offered up their not-inconsiderable reputations and intellectual firepower,
these once-respected thinkers realized too late that they were never steering the ship.
The goal was always a personalist regime that wrecked the economy for the benefit of a few oligarchs.
#Antisemitism is at the center of the Republican project.
From decrying “globalists” and #George #Soros, to embracing the “real” Jews in Israel,
the GOP is inextricably entwined with #Christian #nationalism.
In polite company, the party manages to keep this antisemitism as subtext.
They openly attack other minorities, particularly trans people and Muslims;
But Jew-hatred is expressed as rage at “#elites” or ancient blood libel repackaged for the modern era, such as Pizzagate and Qanon.
“Trolling the libs” necessitates saying the unsayable.
And Trump, who won by embracing the most online people on earth,
is constantly playing footsie with the fringe figures who endorse him.
That’s how he wound up hosting #Kanye #West and #Nick #Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago in 2022,
both avowed antisemites and #Holocaust #deniers.
But bringing trolls inside the tent means the GOP can’t plausibly deny that they’re central to the project.
Republicans can’t very well maintain a veneer of separation from bomb throwers like #Alex #Jones, #Candace #Owens, and #Laura #Loomer
when they’re being boosted by the president himself.
And so the “normie” Gippers steadfastly assure themselves that they are the real GOP — the signal, not the noise.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/heritage-foundation-antisemitism-kevin-roberts?triedRedirect=true
The president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms.
Taking bets on what the latest #tariffs on #coffee will be! If only we put #insurrection #instigators in #prison here.
Racial resentment primes White Americans to believe election outcomes are fraudulent, according to these study findings.
Election deniers tend to draw on narratives linking race and criminality when pushing election fraud, while still remaining committed to democracy as an ideal.
#Elections #Deniers #Fraud #Research
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-025-10065-z
White Americans face a democratic dilemma: remain committed to electoral democracy (which has been historically beneficial for them), or abandon it as non-White groups gain political stature. We argue “fraud” narratives offer White Americans a solution: they can reject specific democratic outcomes, while remaining committed to democracy as an ideal. We thus expect — and demonstrate — that fraud beliefs have a specifically racial valence. In three studies, we show that Black cities were at the epicenter of fraud dialogue on Twitter; that electoral confidence deteriorated most for racially-resentful Whites post-election in 2020; and, in a survey experiment, that racially resentful White Americans are especially likely to believe accusations of fraud when these accusations are racialized. At a time when America’s multiracial democracy appears fragile, groups poised to lose power draw on rote narratives linking race and criminality to legitimize their own denial of free and fair elections.
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