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It is, as they say, fire.
The fellow is a catastrophe. But that is no reason why we should not find him interesting, as a character and as an event. Consider the circumstances. Here is a man possessed of a bottomless resentment and a festering desire for revenge; a man ten times a failure, extremely lazy, incapable of steady work; a man who has spent long periods in institutions; a disappointed bohemian artist; a total good-for-nothing. And here is a people obsessed with powerful though far less justifiable feelings of defeat and inferiority, and unable to think of anything save how to retrieve its lost "honor." And then he— who had learned nothing, and in his dreamy, obstinate arrogance never would learn anything; who had neither technical nor physical discipline, could not sit a horse, or drive a car, or fly a plane, or do aught that men do, even to begetting a child—he develops the one thing needful to establish a connection between him and the people: a gift of oratory. It is oratory unspeakably inferior in kind, but magnetic in its effect on the masses: a weapon of definitely histrionic, even hysterical power, which he thrusts into the nation's wound and turns round. He rouses the populace with images of his own insulted grandeur, deafens it with promises, makes out of the people's sufferings a vehicle for his own greatness, his ascent to fantastic heights, to unlimited power, to incredible compensations and over-compensations. He rises to such a
February 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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itus.bsky.social
The time for “Statements” is over. Without hyperbole, the fate of Western Democracy depends on you and your fellow Democrats. Obstruct, delay, deny… absolutely nothing goes through Congress. Nothing.
February 1, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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desertmage65.bsky.social
Y’all better act soon or WaPo and NYT will be running headlines like: “Trump orders indefinite detention of all elected Democrats, in a move some see as dangerous.”
February 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM