Dale Murphy
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Your table suggests NSDAP began in 1933 or wasn't fascist until then? That's absurd. Try 1920.
All fascisms have roots, a trajectory, a process of consolidation before they can impose totalitarian rule. Their ideology didn't change, just their capacity to implement it.
Your table needs a new column.
All fascisms have roots, a trajectory, a process of consolidation before they can impose totalitarian rule. Their ideology didn't change, just their capacity to implement it.
Your table needs a new column.
October 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Your table suggests NSDAP began in 1933 or wasn't fascist until then? That's absurd. Try 1920.
All fascisms have roots, a trajectory, a process of consolidation before they can impose totalitarian rule. Their ideology didn't change, just their capacity to implement it.
Your table needs a new column.
All fascisms have roots, a trajectory, a process of consolidation before they can impose totalitarian rule. Their ideology didn't change, just their capacity to implement it.
Your table needs a new column.
Ngrams: deracinate (peaks 1776-1865?), deracinated (resurgence 1954- ...?).
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Ngrams: deracinate (peaks 1776-1865?), deracinated (resurgence 1954- ...?).
Michael de Adder, editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and the Hill Times.
@deadder.bsky.social
@deadder.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Michael de Adder, editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and the Hill Times.
@deadder.bsky.social
@deadder.bsky.social
Why is Trump II so much more overtly fascist and destructive than Trump I? Some reasons are obvious, some less so.
Perry Bacon in TNR. (Selections in pics, alt-text.)
archive.ph/2025.08.05-1...
Perry Bacon in TNR. (Selections in pics, alt-text.)
archive.ph/2025.08.05-1...
![[O]ver the last eight years: Key institutions are accommodating and adapting to Trump, rather than challenging him. Trump is more aggressive than eight years ago, but his authoritarian tendencies were fully on display then too. The Democratic Party today, as in 2017, vacillates between aggressively confronting Trump and trying to appeal to pro-Trump swing voters. ...
But what’s so different is how universities, businesses, news organizations, and other core parts of civil society are behaving now. Corporate executives who once forcefully criticized the president say little these days. Universities are reshaping their campuses to comply with Trump’s vision of higher education. Mainstream news organizations often go out of their way to legitimize policies that are authoritarian, ill-conceived, or both. ...
But what I have been shocked by over the last six and half months is how willing powerful American institutions are to agree with Trump—and how unwilling they are to collaborate with one another to stop him.
“The institutions did not hold.” ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wk2uvtjrjwabake4ndcwkryn/bafkreifnrougts5mdye54bh2xc5bikqsotn5zm22w2cut7oxe5ilgkrjti@jpeg)
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Why is Trump II so much more overtly fascist and destructive than Trump I? Some reasons are obvious, some less so.
Perry Bacon in TNR. (Selections in pics, alt-text.)
archive.ph/2025.08.05-1...
Perry Bacon in TNR. (Selections in pics, alt-text.)
archive.ph/2025.08.05-1...
2019 FBI list of Epstein's safe: CD “girl pics nude book 4”; 2x "highly confidential" nude videos; albums of girls; framed nude photos; polaroids “Sue”; Women Old Photos box; 10 binders photos/CDs; many large folders w/ albums; CDs, drives, iPads; boxes of sex toys.
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
August 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
2019 FBI list of Epstein's safe: CD “girl pics nude book 4”; 2x "highly confidential" nude videos; albums of girls; framed nude photos; polaroids “Sue”; Women Old Photos box; 10 binders photos/CDs; many large folders w/ albums; CDs, drives, iPads; boxes of sex toys.
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
www.justice.gov/ag/media/139...
Bove's sycophancy to Trump and his support for neofascist policies make Novak look like a prince of light. 🤦♂️
August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Bove's sycophancy to Trump and his support for neofascist policies make Novak look like a prince of light. 🤦♂️
By 'legacy media' Andreessen means real journalism.
His 'vision': politicians who completely disconnect from real journalism. I.e., communicate *only* on social media. Trump is just the bridge.
Imagine a world with no real journalism, no real news. We are almost there. 😥😱
x.com/a16z/status/...
His 'vision': politicians who completely disconnect from real journalism. I.e., communicate *only* on social media. Trump is just the bridge.
Imagine a world with no real journalism, no real news. We are almost there. 😥😱
x.com/a16z/status/...
July 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
By 'legacy media' Andreessen means real journalism.
His 'vision': politicians who completely disconnect from real journalism. I.e., communicate *only* on social media. Trump is just the bridge.
Imagine a world with no real journalism, no real news. We are almost there. 😥😱
x.com/a16z/status/...
His 'vision': politicians who completely disconnect from real journalism. I.e., communicate *only* on social media. Trump is just the bridge.
Imagine a world with no real journalism, no real news. We are almost there. 😥😱
x.com/a16z/status/...
Strongmen thrive on elites’ surrender. Like in Hungary, power players think silence keeps them safe via compromise. That's an illusion. Defiance, not quiet calculation, is needed. Now’s the moment for principled leadership and fighting like hell, tooth & nail.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
![[T]he real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.
Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.
Don’t dupe yourselves. The illusion that you are smarter than the strongman, that you’ll outmaneuver him with silent cleverness, is just that — an illusion. Now, more than ever, your principled leadership matters.
-- Amb. David Pressman
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/hungary-viktor-orban.html](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wk2uvtjrjwabake4ndcwkryn/bafkreianornq7ulucdw3yphzy3fyiupjgtpkvgqvzinwpi5bfej4zqdpnu@jpeg)
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Strongmen thrive on elites’ surrender. Like in Hungary, power players think silence keeps them safe via compromise. That's an illusion. Defiance, not quiet calculation, is needed. Now’s the moment for principled leadership and fighting like hell, tooth & nail.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Trump now says he'll release some grand jury files -- but that's a red-herring (and who decides what is "pertinent," anyway?). It's not in the grand jury files.
Of course he's lying about this (and of course c. 2003-04 he drew plenty of doodles and drawings.)
Of course he's lying about this (and of course c. 2003-04 he drew plenty of doodles and drawings.)
July 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Trump now says he'll release some grand jury files -- but that's a red-herring (and who decides what is "pertinent," anyway?). It's not in the grand jury files.
Of course he's lying about this (and of course c. 2003-04 he drew plenty of doodles and drawings.)
Of course he's lying about this (and of course c. 2003-04 he drew plenty of doodles and drawings.)
Trump increased ICE's budget by 10x, to ~$37 billion, but dawdled 3 days for expenditures of ~$500k to try and rescue TX flood victims. Almost 300 people died, over half children. *That* is evil. Talking about it and demanding accountability for it is what moral adults do. The buck stops with Trump.
July 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Trump increased ICE's budget by 10x, to ~$37 billion, but dawdled 3 days for expenditures of ~$500k to try and rescue TX flood victims. Almost 300 people died, over half children. *That* is evil. Talking about it and demanding accountability for it is what moral adults do. The buck stops with Trump.
GOP's Two Santas strategy, for 50 years: when in WH, cut taxes & spend big to seem like Santa, boosting economy & debt.
When Dems win, scream about debt, demand cuts.
Voters see GOP as tax-cut saviors; Dems look like Grinch if fiscally responsible.
$4.5 T tax cuts, $1 T spending cuts = $3 T ↑ debt.
When Dems win, scream about debt, demand cuts.
Voters see GOP as tax-cut saviors; Dems look like Grinch if fiscally responsible.
$4.5 T tax cuts, $1 T spending cuts = $3 T ↑ debt.
July 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
GOP's Two Santas strategy, for 50 years: when in WH, cut taxes & spend big to seem like Santa, boosting economy & debt.
When Dems win, scream about debt, demand cuts.
Voters see GOP as tax-cut saviors; Dems look like Grinch if fiscally responsible.
$4.5 T tax cuts, $1 T spending cuts = $3 T ↑ debt.
When Dems win, scream about debt, demand cuts.
Voters see GOP as tax-cut saviors; Dems look like Grinch if fiscally responsible.
$4.5 T tax cuts, $1 T spending cuts = $3 T ↑ debt.
Israel's Security (Military) Cabinet met this week in an underground bunker beneath Tel Aviv’s Ichilov/ Sourasky *Hospital*.
News outlets confirmed that Netanyahu held the meeting in a fortified military complex within the hospital after Iranian missiles closed the Defense Ministry headquarters.
👂🦗🦗
News outlets confirmed that Netanyahu held the meeting in a fortified military complex within the hospital after Iranian missiles closed the Defense Ministry headquarters.
👂🦗🦗
June 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Israel's Security (Military) Cabinet met this week in an underground bunker beneath Tel Aviv’s Ichilov/ Sourasky *Hospital*.
News outlets confirmed that Netanyahu held the meeting in a fortified military complex within the hospital after Iranian missiles closed the Defense Ministry headquarters.
👂🦗🦗
News outlets confirmed that Netanyahu held the meeting in a fortified military complex within the hospital after Iranian missiles closed the Defense Ministry headquarters.
👂🦗🦗
"I cannot in good conscience, support NIH’s compliance with immoral and often illegal directives from the WH, HHS, and so-called DoGE. These violate my ethical duties and professional oaths. I cannot capitulate w/o betraying my professional and moral obligations." --Joshua Fessel, MD, PhD 31/3/2025
April 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"I cannot in good conscience, support NIH’s compliance with immoral and often illegal directives from the WH, HHS, and so-called DoGE. These violate my ethical duties and professional oaths. I cannot capitulate w/o betraying my professional and moral obligations." --Joshua Fessel, MD, PhD 31/3/2025
How might the "Manchurian Candidate" plot play out if set in 2025, if Senator John Iselin was acting on behalf of Putin and became President? What might he have done?
ChatGPT:
[Notice I did not mention Trump, GOP, Maga, etc in the prompt.]
@davidmluebke.bsky.social
ChatGPT:
[Notice I did not mention Trump, GOP, Maga, etc in the prompt.]
@davidmluebke.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How might the "Manchurian Candidate" plot play out if set in 2025, if Senator John Iselin was acting on behalf of Putin and became President? What might he have done?
ChatGPT:
[Notice I did not mention Trump, GOP, Maga, etc in the prompt.]
@davidmluebke.bsky.social
ChatGPT:
[Notice I did not mention Trump, GOP, Maga, etc in the prompt.]
@davidmluebke.bsky.social
If the US wanted to reduce crime by deporting the most-likely criminals based on citizenship status, the place to start would be deporting native-born citizens first. (And then naturalized citizens.) Leaving undocumented immigrants, aka 'illegal aliens', here. 🤷♂️
Trump-MAGA has it backwards.
Trump-MAGA has it backwards.
April 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If the US wanted to reduce crime by deporting the most-likely criminals based on citizenship status, the place to start would be deporting native-born citizens first. (And then naturalized citizens.) Leaving undocumented immigrants, aka 'illegal aliens', here. 🤷♂️
Trump-MAGA has it backwards.
Trump-MAGA has it backwards.
Snyder's 20 Lessons (fwiw).
April 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Snyder's 20 Lessons (fwiw).
Partial list of Thiel- Musk- Trump's destruction already, in just 75 days. Thom Hartmann:
"If public opinion becomes too strong to ignore, it’s possible some GOP will decide that protecting our republic is more important than fearing a primary challenge funded by Musk."
archive.ph/2025.04.07-1...
"If public opinion becomes too strong to ignore, it’s possible some GOP will decide that protecting our republic is more important than fearing a primary challenge funded by Musk."
archive.ph/2025.04.07-1...
April 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Partial list of Thiel- Musk- Trump's destruction already, in just 75 days. Thom Hartmann:
"If public opinion becomes too strong to ignore, it’s possible some GOP will decide that protecting our republic is more important than fearing a primary challenge funded by Musk."
archive.ph/2025.04.07-1...
"If public opinion becomes too strong to ignore, it’s possible some GOP will decide that protecting our republic is more important than fearing a primary challenge funded by Musk."
archive.ph/2025.04.07-1...
Bill Ackman (Trump supporter, hedge fund billionaire):
"[Trump is] in the process of destroying confidence in our country... [H]e will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that [may] take decades to rehabilitate.
... We are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter..."
"[Trump is] in the process of destroying confidence in our country... [H]e will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that [may] take decades to rehabilitate.
... We are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter..."
April 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Bill Ackman (Trump supporter, hedge fund billionaire):
"[Trump is] in the process of destroying confidence in our country... [H]e will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that [may] take decades to rehabilitate.
... We are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter..."
"[Trump is] in the process of destroying confidence in our country... [H]e will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that [may] take decades to rehabilitate.
... We are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter..."
Thank you!
The following paragraphs are also relevant. (Pics, link -- in case useful for others).
www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/mi...
I'll share with my students.
The following paragraphs are also relevant. (Pics, link -- in case useful for others).
www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/mi...
I'll share with my students.
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Thank you!
The following paragraphs are also relevant. (Pics, link -- in case useful for others).
www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/mi...
I'll share with my students.
The following paragraphs are also relevant. (Pics, link -- in case useful for others).
www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/mi...
I'll share with my students.
I went to the Tesla showroom at the local mall -- only to learn it was completely closed and emptied out a week ago! 😮😅
March 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I went to the Tesla showroom at the local mall -- only to learn it was completely closed and emptied out a week ago! 😮😅
World map of legal working age by country.
March 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
World map of legal working age by country.
Frank Chopp, July 2006:
March 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Frank Chopp, July 2006: