A propos of Acosta's proposed that we just need to tell Republicans in power that we trust their better angels (paraphrasing), acknowledging that this might sound naive, Pollyanna-ish or raise questions about what he might be smoking, I suggest this article by the brilliant Katherine Stewart, leading authority on right-wing paramilitarie…
A propos of Acosta's proposed that we just need to tell Republicans in power that we trust their better angels (paraphrasing), acknowledging that this might sound naive, Pollyanna-ish or raise questions about what he might be smoking, I suggest this article by the brilliant Katherine Stewart, leading authority on right-wing paramilitaries and the book Bringing the War Home.
As a close student of Tim Snyder and Anne Applebaum, I would suggest that Acosta may have missed their point when interviewing them. Anne just said the other day that her threat level was nine or ten, and that the nature of what is going on is unprecedented (the bad kind).
My connection to the live-stream cut out as I was driving earlier, and that is right were I ended my listen -- need to go back and hear the rest, but could not resist the contrast between Acosta's sunny message of hope and Stewart's clear-eyed piece linked to above.
Well, he did say something to the effect that it was going to be hell on wheels for the next few months, or even years, but that he thought we would come out it alive but battle scarred. My own prediction these past few weeks is that our situation has to get worse before it can get better. We have to hit a critical mass of pain before people wake up and force Congress to impeach and convict. The pain will not be fun. It may even have to take the military shooting people in the streets. Right now too many people think everything’s just fine because none of what’s happening is directly affecting them. But it will happen.
I agree with most of what he said, Ann. Also, I absolutely believe peaceful protestors will be clubbed, tear-gassed, shot. I was a little shocked by Acosta's suggestion that kindly exhortations to do the right thing would turn the trick.
oops I mixed up my right wing radical extremist experts. Katherine Stewart iauthor of The Power Worshippers and expert on the rise of white Christian nationalism and Kathleen Stewart is author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America and expert on extremism and paramilitaries. Both are superb authors, worth reading and have superb lectures and interviews online.
A propos of Acosta's proposed that we just need to tell Republicans in power that we trust their better angels (paraphrasing), acknowledging that this might sound naive, Pollyanna-ish or raise questions about what he might be smoking, I suggest this article by the brilliant Katherine Stewart, leading authority on right-wing paramilitaries and the book Bringing the War Home.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-the-courts-up-to-the-situation?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
As a close student of Tim Snyder and Anne Applebaum, I would suggest that Acosta may have missed their point when interviewing them. Anne just said the other day that her threat level was nine or ten, and that the nature of what is going on is unprecedented (the bad kind).
My connection to the live-stream cut out as I was driving earlier, and that is right were I ended my listen -- need to go back and hear the rest, but could not resist the contrast between Acosta's sunny message of hope and Stewart's clear-eyed piece linked to above.
Well, he did say something to the effect that it was going to be hell on wheels for the next few months, or even years, but that he thought we would come out it alive but battle scarred. My own prediction these past few weeks is that our situation has to get worse before it can get better. We have to hit a critical mass of pain before people wake up and force Congress to impeach and convict. The pain will not be fun. It may even have to take the military shooting people in the streets. Right now too many people think everything’s just fine because none of what’s happening is directly affecting them. But it will happen.
I agree with most of what he said, Ann. Also, I absolutely believe peaceful protestors will be clubbed, tear-gassed, shot. I was a little shocked by Acosta's suggestion that kindly exhortations to do the right thing would turn the trick.
oops I mixed up my right wing radical extremist experts. Katherine Stewart iauthor of The Power Worshippers and expert on the rise of white Christian nationalism and Kathleen Stewart is author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America and expert on extremism and paramilitaries. Both are superb authors, worth reading and have superb lectures and interviews online.