Thomas ZimmerAs America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”
For Die Zeit, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.
Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):
The Trumpists want escalation – and would love to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as pretext for a comprehensive crackdown on any “leftist” opposition, on that “vast domestic terror movement” Stephen Miller has raged about.
Do they really believe any of this nonsense?
f*cking b*tch club@tzimmer_history do they believe it?
Yes, I think they do. Unfortunately it’s more like mass psychosis than fear of anything “in real life”
They’re terrified of living in “crime-ridden cities run by Democratic mayors” when some of the reddest rural towns have far higher crime rates.
etc, etc, etc.
Isaac Ji Kuo@grammasaurus @tzimmer_history Living in the deep South, there's one thing you need to understand about white racist christianists ...
Their core identity belief is that they are the most persecuted people ever. It will never matter how much this is the opposite of the truth. This is a core identity belief. And it justifies every level of applying revenge oppression on everyone else, including mass lynchings and simply shooting random black people at any time for any or no reason.
FediThing 
@isaackuo @grammasaurus @tzimmer_history
Is there any kind of explanation for this paranoia?
Is this a relic of the civil war? A subconscious desire to refight it?
@FediThing @grammasaurus @tzimmer_history Oh no no no this goes WAY BACK further than the Civil War. It's how they justified genociding the native Americans and enslaving the blacks.
@isaackuo @grammasaurus @tzimmer_history
That is pretty disturbing. 😞 It sounds like they're not in touch with reality.
@FediThing @grammasaurus @tzimmer_history ... Let me tell you something about religious fanatics in general ... sigh ...