Thomas ZimmerMar 10
“Pluralism is a lie”
 
That really captures the essence of MAGA: A movement at war with the reality of American life and a large portion of the population.
 
And it also points to one of the regime’s key weaknesses: They have fully bought into their own white nationalist propaganda.
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The resistance the regime has encountered on the ground matters not only because it exposed the MAGA government’s struggles to consolidate authoritarian rule. It matters because it refutes the core premise of MAGA’s worldview: That a multiracial, pluralistic society cannot – it must not! – work.
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This is the question that defines the political conflict of our time: Can society function as an egalitarian democracy under conditions of multiracial, multi-religious, multicultural pluralism? The fundamental claim of ethno-nationalist movements across the world is that it cannot.
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The necessary social cohesion for a nation to endure, the Trumpists want us to believe, can only be achieved in a racially, culturally, religiously, and ethnically homogeneous “Volk” – and only when that “Volk” is allowed to impose a strictly hierarchical order in its “homeland.”
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It is inconceivable to MAGA ideologues that anyone outside the circles of an “anti-American” conspiracy could truly believe in egalitarian democracy and be willing to defend a vision of multiracial pluralism. They are convinced it is all a lie propagated by “globalist elites.”
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That there might be millions of white American citizens who are animated by a deeply felt solidarity with their neighbors that can’t be extinguished with a bit of violent intimidation is not something the regime properly accounted for.
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In Minneapolis and elsewhere, the Trumpists have been encountering communities exhibiting exactly the kind of cohesion and solidarity across racial, cultural, and religious lines they claim is impossible.

Nothing could be more terrifying to the blood-and-soil nationalists.

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/38dc5fd1-0e5a-4047-b8f0-0da0e2416c38

Turning Points and Authoritarian Escalations

Is America’s descent into autocracy accelerating or is Trump struggling to break through the democratic defenses? In Minneapolis, MAGA's worldview is being refuted.

Steady
Show threadAdam Jacobs 🇺🇦Mar 10
@tzimmer_history Perhaps they could have a catchy slogan for it, something like "One Volk, one realm, one leader"