Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ Lucid: Disaster Fascism: One Civilization Must Disappear So Another Can Prosper
The Trump state revolves around White Christian nationalism, not only as a domestic policy goal justifying human rights crimes to reduce the non-white immigrant population (killing, detention, deportation) but as the watchword and rationale for foreign alliances and national security policy.
Adam Lynch @ AlterNet: 'Pray for America': Petrified MAGA now fleeing their 'madman'
Panicking MAGA everywhere appear to be clinging to one another and wailing at the creature they’ve let lose onto the townspeople
Timothy Snyder @ Thinking about…: The President speaks genocide
Whatever happens tonight, the president, by saying such things, has already changed the world for the worse, and made acts of mass violence more likely.
Stephen Beschloss @ Lincoln Square: Donald Trump Needs to Be Removed
He is becoming increasingly dangerous and unable to perform the duties of his office, requiring the invocation of the 25th Amendment.
Matt Gertz @ Media Matters: Between Hegseth and the Fox Cabinet, no restraints on Trump’s war crimes plan
Hegseth’s distinguishing characteristic in his prior role as weekend host of Fox’s morning show was his delight in the prospect of American service members engaging in brutality.