"What this moment reveals is not merely the fragility of white political innocence, but the durability of a system that has survived Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights reform, and the carceral turn by continually redefining violence as order."
~ Elisabeth Glassco
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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https://400years.substack.com/p/what-history-reveals-about-the-hard
"Authoritarian systems do not begin with overt tyranny. They begin with a normalization process. Each move is framed as temporary, necessary, or targeted at 'bad people.' Each expansion of power is justified by manufactured crisis. Each erosion of civil rights is sold as a trade-off for safety."
~ Oliver Kornetzke
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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"I sometimes fear that people might think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn't wal…" — #MichaelRosen
https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/i-sometimes-fear.html
William Lindsey 
Richard Quinn
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