Feed rightwing tropes about lawlessness and unrest, while also prolonging the conflict, meanwhile alienating young people? A three-fer.

Trump is merely the MAGA Justices' vehicle - not their destination. They're headed to the total take over of the federal judiciary by and for the billionaires.
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What does it mean, and how does it sound to conflicted voters, when you promise to pass 'bipartisan bills' with this man and those who aid and abet him?
MAGA is an existential threat existing outside any democratic norms, to convey that you can't also offer to co-govern with it.

Feed rightwing tropes about lawlessness and unrest, while also prolonging the conflict, meanwhile alienating young people? A three-fer.

Yes, we see that you are grumpy that we have the temerity to ask that you reflect a bit on how you speak and act. It is - indeed - a very big burden for you to have listen from up there in your mansion.

Nancy Reagan telling kids to 'just say no' ushered in a spike of drug/alcohol use. Hard to imagine what - if actually heard - could better *dissuade* young from voting than being excoriated for not doing so.
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4) 'Go meta.' Apply lessons of experts on authoritarianism (h/t Ruth Ben-Ghiat) - tell voters that eroding our will to resist is actually the true aim of the autocrat. That despair is giving into what wealthy & powerful want.
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There is no reason to think Trump's trial helps him outside his MAGA base.

'He is not the alpha. He is falling asleep. He is subjected to censure,' says Anat Shenker-Osorio 🟧. He looks 'small' and his contempt for the law alienates swing voters.

On today's pod👇
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'It changes the narrative from a tale of 2 old men, neither of whom [voters] find appealing, into the possibility that a convicted criminal will be deciding which laws if any apply to him & to everyone else.' - Anat Shenker-Osorio 🟧 Dahlia Lithwick #JusticeCantWait slate.com/news-and-polit…

And it will also decide whether you get to make any future decisions.

It's truly extraordinary how easy it is to get us to punch down and across at each other without seeing this is the number one strategy the most powerful has to keep us from punching up and getting them out.

The right has one storyline here and around the world: divide in order to conquer. They cast an ever-evolving set of scapegoats for us to blame so we will look the other way while they seize their freedoms and ours alongside. Dems readily take their bait...

I know everything feels hopeless. But that too is by design. Authoritarians must erode our will to resist to retain power. Antidote to despair is action. SPREAD THE WORD

Trump is not merely running for president, he is running to be our last president, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court justices that a handful of billionaires installed to do their bidding. #JusticeCantWait

Despair is what they want you to feel.

Don’t cooperate.

Anat Shenker-Osorio 🟧