#reactionary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reactionary, aggregated by home.social.
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R.I.P. Mr #Kirk, social media and university debate preacher of #hate. Shooting him made him a #martyr for sure. So if they did it to stop his #reactionary poison be spread I don’t see a chance it worked. Thus they committed a #crime and became #guilty for nought. I mean, Kirk is guilty of #instigation, but a victim’s guilt is never an excuse nor a justification.
When Dietrich #Bonhoeffer gave his two cents in the discussion if assassinating Hitler was ethically permitted he said they were guilty either way: Let the #Nazis go on with their #Fascist agenda, murdering millions of human bodies and souls, or, kill the Fuehrer. So, he said, if killing one spared many humans’ lifes he would choose to kill the one. But, he continued, an isolated tyrannicide wasn’t wise politically, because killing the head alone wouldn’t stop the Fascist machine. (All paraphrased by me)
Kirk wasn’t as important as Hitler, of course, but the same weighing of the real political effect should have been done here.
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If Trump wins, he’ll be a vessel for the most regressive figures in US politics
#CPAC is a harbinger of what a second #Trump presidency would bring,
influenced by a consortium of self-proclaimed #Christian #nationalists and #reactionary #dark #money groups like the Heritage Foundation who see Trump as their return ticket to relevancy.The #Heritage #Foundation has poured $22m into #Project2025, their plan to 🔸gut the “deep state” and radically reshape the government 🔸with a souped-up version of the #unitary #executive theory, which contends that the president should be allowed to enact his agenda without pesky checks and balances.
To paraphrase one speaker at CPAC: ♦️“Welcome to the end of democracy.”♦️
The Heritage Foundation’s policy agenda is disturbingly #radical, even by the standards of the modern Republican party.
They want to #dismantle the administrative state, #ban #abortion completely at the state and federal level, and, as always, #cut #taxes for the rich.They would put #religious #liberties over civil ones, and #Christian rights over the rights of #women, people of color, #LGBTQ+ people and really anyone who does not look and think exactly like they do.
As Trump himself said in an alarmingly theocratic speech last week:
“No one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration, I swear to you.”And we have no reason to doubt him. Russell #Vought, a radical involved with Project 2025 who speaks with Trump at least twice a month, is a candidate to be the next White House chief of staff.
Vought works closely with the Christian nationalist William #Wolfe, a former Trump administration official who has advocated for ending surrogacy, no-fault divorce, sex education in schools and policies that “subsidize single motherhood”.
The Heritage Foundation has even called for “ending recreational sex”.
Media coverage of Trump tends to focus on his mounting legal woes (nearly half a billion in damages and counting) and increasingly bizarre rants (magnets don’t work underwater).But such an approach misses the point.
We can’t risk focusing on spectacle at the expense of strategy, and he has made his strategy perfectly clear.