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Alex Wild Aug 16, 2023

It's not that Americans themselves are getting more fascist, more hateful. If anything, Americans are becoming more tolerant.

It's that a small set of extremely rich people is getting bolder about funding extremism, bolder about supporting coups, bolder about buying courts.

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Patrick Gillam

@alexwild
Thanks for the reminder. And I would add that the growing a̶c̶c̶e̶p̶t̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ embrace of our non-male, non-hetero, non-white brethren is precisely what is driving this reaction by the white hetero male supremacists. Emphasis on “reaction.”