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He was the #AmericanCatiline and thanks to #Project2025, he is the #RedCaesar.
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If the Creepy Weirdos wanted #RedCaesar, We the People™ should give them what they want.
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#Caesar did not actively defend Catiline.
While he had previously supported Catiline, he later distanced himself.
When accused of involvement, Caesar pointed to Cicero’s testimony that he had informed against Catiline.
Overall, Caesar maintained a cautious stance to avoid implicating himself in the #conspiracy.
#AmericanCatiline #CatilineLives #RedCaesar #history #republic
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The #RedCaesar just isn’t the one the #Project2025 Christofascists had calculated and planned for.
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Should’ve had Elmo has #RedCaesar on my #Project2025 bingo card.
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Anton and Yarvin’s May 2021 conversation was recorded for the podcast of the American Mind,
a publication of the powerful rightwing #Claremont #Institute,
where Anton is a senior fellow,
and whose growing influence during the Trump era has seen it described as the “nerve center of the American right”.💥On 8 December, Trump’s transition team announced that Anton would be appointed director of policy planning at the state department.
Anton also served in a communications role in Trump’s first-term national security council from February 2017 until April 2018,
resigning the day before neoconservative John Bolton assumed the role of national security adviser.After leaving the first Trump administration, Anton did not abandon Trump,
but continued writing about US liberal democracy in bleak terms.In "Up from Conservatism",
a 2023 anthology of essays edited by the executive director of Claremont’s "Center for the American Way of Life", Arthur Milikh,
Anton wrote that
“the United States peaked around 1965”,
and that Americans are ruled by
“a network of unelected bureaucrats … corporate-tech-finance senior management, ‘experts’ who set the boundaries of acceptable opinion,
and media figures who police those boundaries”.Anton continued the discussion in sections headed
“The universities have become evil”,
“Our economy is fake”,
“The people are corrupt”,
“Our civilization has lost the will to live”.His and Yarvin’s conversation was ostensibly about his 2020 book,
"The Stakes".That book was controversial even on the right for its prolonged consideration of autocratic “Caesarism”
as a means of resolving American decadence.In the book, he defined #Caesarism as a “form of one-man rule:
halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”.He adds, though, that
“Caesarism is not tyranny, which, strictly understood,
is a regime that usurps a legitimate and functioning government”,
whereas Caesarism implements “authoritarian one-man rule partially legitimized by necessity”– that is,
“the breakdown of republican, constitutional rule”,
adding that
“a nation no longer capable of ruling itself must yet be ruled”.He writes that a
💥“Red Caesar” could be attractive to
“the reds” in the Republican coalition,
who he says are
“under constant rhetorical, political, and, increasingly, physical attack,
especially in blue states”,
-- making them “more likely to turn to a Caesar”.Anton stops short of openly calling for authoritarian rule,
but in general, he writes that the advantages of Caesarism include
“continuity and stability”
and “the prospect of avoiding conflict”,
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The #American founders held both #Caesar and #Catiline in deep contempt.
The originalists and textualists know this, and choose to memoryhole that fact.
Or, they are deeply ignorant of #history.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html
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I assume by "Red Caesar" they mean someone stabbed by 23 of his closest friends.
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@SrRochardBunson Voters in deep red states/districts that want to vote against to stop the '#RedCaesar ' scenario are THROWING AWAY half their votes! 🚯
Use #MATH to #SaveAmerica from dictatorship; #PrimaryFromTheCenter in the #RepublicanPrimary if you live in '#MAGA land'!
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As I understand it, #Project2025 is preparing to take power as soon as the election is 'won'.
Laying out their plan for the first 150 days, and getting all their ducks in a row to have a seamless move into the #RedCaesar thing.Who plays Caesar (or Cyrus, depending on whether you're a #ChristianNationalist or just a plain ol' #Fascist) is less important than you suspect
If #TFG ends up in jail, they're already saying it's a witchhunt. Like I sd, hope I'm wrong
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"the pseudo-intellectuals of right-wing think tanks... would argue, that the nation needs a Red Caesar who will... impose order.
...let me translate. The alleged brain trust of an increasingly fascist #MAGA movement wants an American #dictatorship that would “suspend” #democracy in January 2025 — just 15 months from now."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html#Thread of #RedCaesar articles:
https://newsie.social/deck/@ZhiZhu/111187303882322470#Trump #Republicans #GOP #authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #USA #News
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@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Strandjunker Is the #ClaremontInstitute still an accredited Law School? 🤔
#RedCaesar #SmashTheFash #SaveAmerica -
"Increasingly, #Republican politicians and elite thinkers are calling for a #RedCaesar — a strongman #dictator who can take control of America and whip us into shape — to replace our elected office of president.
In order to do this they would first have to "terminate" our #Constitution and create a "post-constitutional" new political order, as #Trump proposed doing toward the end of his single presidential term."
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/09/the-rights-red-caesar-plan-a-new-order-keeps-marching-forward/ -
"the pseudo-intellectuals of right-wing think tanks... would argue, that the nation needs a Red Caesar who will... impose order.
...let me translate. The alleged brain trust of an increasingly fascist #MAGA movement wants an American #dictatorship that would “suspend” #democracy in January 2025 — just 15 months from now."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html#Thread of #RedCaesar articles:
https://newsie.social/deck/@ZhiZhu/111187303882322470#Trump #Republicans #GOP #authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #USA #News
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I appreciate Heather Cox Richardson's writing. She always has something intelligent and applicable to say.
I would agree with your statement that the MAGA crowd want Biden to lose, but I think Ms Richardson is more accurate when she says they want #democracy to lose.
The GOP, led by the MAGA cult, want to end American democracy and install a "strongman" dictatorship in the USA.
Have you read the #RedCaesar stuff? Here's a thread:
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“The fact that Trump lost in 2020 has just radicalized a lot of these people – it occurred to them that they might not win a proper election again,” Damon Linker said.
“That would mean that – excuse the language – they’re shit out of luck unless there’s some other path to power. That’s where Caesarism comes in.”
If Trump wins in 2024, does he listen to people like Michael Anton about the need to perhaps cancel the next election?
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America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship | “Thought leaders” of the far right talk openly about a 2025 dictatorship. People need to be alarmed.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html
#Inquirer #RedCaesar #Right #AmericanDictatorship #ThoughtLeaders #Alarm #Politics #News
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Jonathan #Toebbe and his wife, Dianna are incarcerated for 19 and 21 years respectively for trying to sell restricted defense information.
#trump didn’t sell the information to #pratt for money, but he shared secrets for ego (#narcissistic fill).
Should trump have consequences even though money wasn’t exchanged?
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Jonathan #Toebbe and his wife, Dianna are incarcerated for 19 and 21 years respectively for trying to sell restricted defense information.
#trump didn’t sell the information to #pratt for money, but he shared secrets for ego (#narcissistic fill).
Should trump have consequences even though money wasn’t exchanged?
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Jonathan #Toebbe and his wife, Dianna are incarcerated for 19 and 21 years respectively for trying to sell restricted defense information.
#trump didn’t sell the information to #pratt for money, but he shared secrets for ego (#narcissistic fill).
Should trump have consequences even though money wasn’t exchanged?
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Jonathan #Toebbe and his wife, Dianna are incarcerated for 19 and 21 years respectively for trying to sell restricted defense information.
#trump didn’t sell the information to #pratt for money, but he shared secrets for ego (#narcissistic fill).
Should trump have consequences even though money wasn’t exchanged?
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"Underlining this danger is the fact that Caesarism has won converts beyond Claremont as a solution to... the declining electoral appeal of far-right ideas.
Charles Haywood... wrote in 2021 that... “Caesarism, and its time-legitimated successor, monarchy, is a natural, realism-based system...”
...writer Stephen Wolfe... proposes a “Christian prince” whose rule would be “a measured and theocratic Caesarism”"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/red-caesar-authoritarianism-republicans-extreme-right -
See also this #Guardian article:
"“Thirty years ago, if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a #dictatorship on the #UnitedStates, you would have said that I was insane,” he said.
“But it’s no longer insane. It’s now real. There are those people out there,” Linker added. “The question is: will they get their chance.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct#Trump #GOP #Authoritarianism #RedCaesar #Politics #USPol #USA #News #NoPaywall
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"The majority of Americans do not want to live under a dictatorship, and we have the power to stop this. But America is never going to prevent the #RedCaesar unless we start talking about it, loudly and right away."
~@willbunch
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html#Trump #Dictatorship #GOP #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #Journalism #Journalists #USA #News #Media #SocialMedia #NoPaywall #WillBunch
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"After the cultural upheavals of the 1960s, #Republicans could win elections through the backlash politics of Richard #Nixon or Ronald #Reagan or the demagoguery of 1988′s “Willie Horton ad.” They then turned to tactics like #VoterSuppression or extreme #gerrymandering as their electorate shrunk.
In 2024, the right sees #dictatorship as its final “Hail Mary” pass. And it just might work."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html#Trump #RedCaesar #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News #NoPaywall
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"proponents of suspending the #Constitution include the likes of Claremont’s Michael Anton, the leading #academic proponent of Trumpism, who in a 2020 book floated a similar theory about a “form of one-man rule: halfway … between monarchy and tyranny.”"
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html#Trump #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #RedCaesar #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Politics #USPol #USA #News #NoPaywall
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""The worldview he laid out... was one where things he might otherwise consider harmful, like the dissolution of our electoral process or the erosion of shared understandings of truth, were to be embraced as fated stages in a process of national rebirth.”
So now that Bannon’s craziness is here, the phony intellects of #Trumpism at Hillsdale or Claremont are seizing the opportunity to make their case for the #RedCaesar to bring about that “national rebirth.”"
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"It’s all the more remarkable since we all know who the actual #RedCaesar is — even if he is, technically, orange. #DonaldTrump...
#Trump has been pretty specific in recent speeches and interviews about the actions he would take... naming a special prosecutor to go after his political enemies, blowing up civil service protections to fill the government with his acolytes... and sending troops to “control crime” in Democratic-led cities."
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"the “New Right now often discusses a #RedCaesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people.”
...anti-democracy arguments like Slack’s are gaining traction in the small but influential world of far-right think tanks like #Hillsdale & the #ClaremontInstitute.
...a dangerous #conspiracy theory taking root not just with obscure professors but with the iconoclastic #billionaires who back the right."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html -
"the “New Right now often discusses a #RedCaesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people.”
...anti-democracy arguments like Slack’s are gaining traction in the small but influential world of far-right think tanks like #Hillsdale & the #ClaremontInstitute.
...a dangerous #conspiracy theory taking root not just with obscure professors but with the iconoclastic #billionaires who back the right."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html -
"the pseudo-intellectuals of right-wing think tanks... would argue, that the nation needs a #RedCaesar who will... impose order.
If you’re not one of those dudes who thinks about Ancient Rome every day, let me translate. The alleged brain trust of an increasingly fascist #MAGA movement wants an American #dictatorship that would “suspend” #democracy in January 2025 — just 15 months from now."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html#Trump #GOP #Republicans #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #News #NoPaywall
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@rberger Kevin Slack's talk of "post-Constitutional rule" means ***removal of the constitutional order of the United States*** — activities, that usually constitute criminal "un-American" acts against the authority & continuity of the United States.
More work for the FBI to do.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #WeThePeople #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #RedCaesar #KevinSlack #Insurrection #Rebellion #ProsecuteALLRebels #EnemiesOfTheConstitution
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@rberger Kevin Slack's talk of "post-Constitutional rule" means ***removal of the constitutional order of the United States*** — activities, that usually constitute criminal "un-American" acts against the authority & continuity of the United States.
More work for the FBI to do.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #WeThePeople #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #RedCaesar #KevinSlack #Insurrection #Rebellion #ProsecuteALLRebels #EnemiesOfTheConstitution
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@rberger Kevin Slack's talk of "post-Constitutional rule" means ***removal of the constitutional order of the United States*** — activities, that usually constitute criminal "un-American" acts against the authority & continuity of the United States.
More work for the FBI to do.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #WeThePeople #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #RedCaesar #KevinSlack #Insurrection #Rebellion #ProsecuteALLRebels #EnemiesOfTheConstitution
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@rberger Kevin Slack's talk of "post-Constitutional rule" means ***removal of the constitutional order of the United States*** — activities, that usually constitute criminal "un-American" acts against the authority & continuity of the United States.
More work for the FBI to do.#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #WeThePeople #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #RedCaesar #KevinSlack #Insurrection #Rebellion #ProsecuteALLRebels #EnemiesOfTheConstitution