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A Netflix movie parables our current American-style culture of denial. It would seem to be hyperbolic, even cartoonish. Not today.
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We don’t have a democracy, but a republic if we can keep it. The first task is not to protect a non-existent democracy but to see clearly and to beat back fascism.
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One obvious clue comes at that point when trends that were positive for a long-time start going in the opposite direction.
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Jesse Watters of Fox News vilely said the way to deal with Dr. Anthony Fauci is to ambush him, then deliver a “kill shot.”
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Grotesque is the perfect word to describe what DeSantis does all the time -- his M.O, as the cops call a criminal’s characteristic method of operation.  
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Flat-earthers swim in a sea of anomie -- a social phenomenon, transmitted and amplified through communication, more rapidly and thoroughly than ever in this age of social media.
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The premise is wrong: The United States is not today and has never been a democracy. You cannot lose what you never had.
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Pandemonium -- an ideological choice -- is a feature of the ruling ultra-capitalist paradigm we live under and not a bug in the program.
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One can only conclude that much of the public and the media are unfairly setting the bar at a very different height for Biden than they did for Trump.
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An air of menace surrounds the fascist turn of the GOP, including intra-party purges, threats of rebellion, violence and even death.
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