“Coups are like concrete.
When they stop moving, they set.
It is already later than we think.”
—Carole Cadwalladr
#itsacoup #coup

#JDPritzger continues this point at 6:52 in:

"I just have one question: What comes next?

After we've discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants… and the gay, lesbian, and transgender people… the developmentally disabled, the women, and the minorities…

Once we've ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends…

After that, when the problems we started with are *still there,* staring us in the face…

What… comes... next?

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don't want to repeat history, then for *God's* sake, in this moment, we'd better be strong enough to learn from it." 4/4

A full transcript of his closing remarks (taken from the video linked above) is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y30PS0pwkiQt_BlJKyZLs-pFlsQXKRAM235mTYDdEcI/edit?usp=drivesdk

Even more of #JDPritzger 's eloquent takedown of Trump is at 5:48 in:

"The root that tears apart your house's foundation begins as a seed– a seed of distrust, and hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe, a lifetime ago, didn't arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about… inflation, and looking for someone to blame.

I'm watching with a foreboding dread at what is happening with our country, right now. A President who watches a plane go down in the Potomac, and announces without facts or findings, that a diversity hire is to blame for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who sued Starbucks, arguing that consumers pay too much for their coffee, because the batistas are too female… and non-white.

The #authoritarian playbook is laid bare here. They point to a group of people who don't look like you, and tell you to blame *them* for your problems..." 3/4

More of #JDPritzger's eloquent takedown of #Trump is at 2:05 in:

"There are people– some in my own party– who think that, if you just give #DonaldTrump what he wants, he will make an exception and he'll spare you some of the harm.

I'll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second, to say… that almost none of these people has had the experience with the President that I do.

I once swallowed my pride to give him what he wants– public praise on the Sunday news shows– in return for ventilators and N-95 masks, during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal.

And it turns out, his promises were as broken as the bi-pap machines he sent us instead of ventilators. ‘Going along to get along’ does not work. Just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors." 2/4