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This article from Thomas Zimmer is excellent, if disturbing. Here's one particularly salient passage:

"Rightwingers are fully committed to this anti-democratic, anti-pluralistic vision – which they understand is a minoritarian project: They are acutely aware that they don't have..."
01:40 PM - May 20, 2023
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"...numerical majorities, and they have developed a comprehensive strategy to put their vision into practice anyway.

The voter suppression, the gerrymandering, the efforts to subvert elections up and down the country, the rightwing capture of the courts… "
01:41 PM - May 20, 2023
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"Those are not disparate actions, but the manifestation of what is the core tenet of the rightwing worldview: Only white conservatives are allowed to rule in America – opposition to this vision is regarded as fundamentally illegitimate..."
01:42 PM - May 20, 2023
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"The Right understands that such blatant undermining of democracy might lead to a mobilization of civil society...."
01:43 PM - May 20, 2023
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"That’s why Republicans are criminalizing protests, by defining them as “riots,” by legally sanctioning physical attacks on “rioters,” by not only condoning but actively encouraging vigilante violence against “the Left."
01:43 PM - May 20, 2023
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