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generalbetrayus

(1,156 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 12:41 PM Saturday

Presidential historian and author Rick Perstein posted this on Facebook yesterday

Last edited Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:28 PM - Edit history (1)

under the caption "I can name that tune in one note, Tom.". He did not know the source of the attached text image.

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Presidential historian and author Rick Perstein posted this on Facebook yesterday (Original Post) generalbetrayus Saturday OP
Good information to keep on hand Bayard Saturday #1
Is the answer what is Fascism? Botany Saturday #2
Fascism for a $1000, Alex. kentuck Saturday #3
I was thinking , every American mailbox. KS Toronado Saturday #9
I just recommended to the Card Campaign for Democracy pat_k Saturday #18
Thank you for the link. quaint Saturday #8
Read 'em all starting with # 1 about rewiring the system. And pass them along. Botany Saturday #17
MAGAism Cirsium Saturday #13
Oh, I thought generalbetrayus was describing the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. flashman13 Saturday #4
The Best Judiciary Money Can Buy. BurnDoubt Saturday #5
Annd finally BidenRocks Saturday #6
If anyone has a FB page.... kentuck Saturday #7
Done. lamp_shade Sunday #19
what image? I see a little white box. niyad Saturday #10
Try this. generalbetrayus Saturday #11
excellent. Thank you. niyad Saturday #14
This list should be updated by someone, popsdenver Saturday #12
It can and now has happened here (USA). PufPuf23 Saturday #15
What Lewis foreshadowed andym Sunday #21
Great OP malaise Saturday #16
Gee, where have I seen that before... Hugin Sunday #20

kentuck

(114,493 posts)
3. Fascism for a $1000, Alex.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:52 PM
Saturday

Most thorough list I have seen. Should be shown to every American so they know what they are now living under.

KS Toronado

(21,109 posts)
9. I was thinking , every American mailbox.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:16 PM
Saturday

Does our party mail stuff to every mailbox? We need to if we want millions of Rs to help us defeat tsf.

pat_k

(11,551 posts)
18. I just recommended to the Card Campaign for Democracy
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 08:28 PM
Saturday

Card Campaign for Democracy
Swing Democracy One Card at a Time
https://cc4democracy.com/

Contact: info@cc4democracy.com

Botany

(75,108 posts)
17. Read 'em all starting with # 1 about rewiring the system. And pass them along.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 07:32 PM
Saturday
Harris and Walz crushed it but Musk, Peter Theil, Palantir, Eaton, Tripp Lite, Leonard Leo and
the Heritage shits, along with Russia, a dirty media, and others they just stole it. Harris crushed it
by God only knows how many votes were flipped, deleted, and blocked by shits like “true the
vote” from voting. Musk and Theil had their cyber shits get into the guts of the 2024 voting mechanisms
and make it so that when the computers saw an error from the rat fucking of the vote it stopped
the operating systems or the central tabulators from reporting that error.

Trump knew the fix was in. Hence his behavior.

Sorry to

Cirsium

(2,811 posts)
13. MAGAism
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:42 PM
Saturday

Future generations will call this MAGAism. Fascism + the largest military in history + global domination + massive surveillance capabilities.

Lots of debate about whether or not this is fascism. Some think that applying the word to what is happening changes things. What's in a word? The word is not the thing. The phenomenon is what is important, and this phenomenon is unprecedented. Labeling it fascism does not necessarily help us to understand it. If left unchecked, this will be worse than fascism in my opinion.

BurnDoubt

(966 posts)
5. The Best Judiciary Money Can Buy.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:13 PM
Saturday

Democracy's Backstop turned out to be a Backstab.
This Ends Badly.

popsdenver

(292 posts)
12. This list should be updated by someone,
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:38 PM
Saturday

EVERY single day, and the entire list posted every single day here on DU and across all social Media

Of course the 2025 people and Steven Miller would just use it as a check off list........NOT LOL

PufPuf23

(9,538 posts)
15. It can and now has happened here (USA).
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 07:10 PM
Saturday
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis.[1] Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany), and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who sees Windrip's fascist policies for what they are ahead of time and who becomes Windrip's most ardent critic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here

andym

(6,029 posts)
21. What Lewis foreshadowed
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:48 PM
Sunday

In this critique of Lewis, it's clear that Lewis understood American culture better than the critic who wrote this:

"Keith Perry argues that the key weakness of the novel is not that he decks out U.S. politicians with sinister European touches, but that he finally conceives of fascism and totalitarianism in terms of traditional U.S. political models rather than seeing them as introducing a new kind of society and a new kind of regime.[13] Windrip is less a Nazi than a con-man-plus-Rotarian, a manipulator who knows how to appeal to people's desperation, but neither he nor his followers are in the grip of the kind of world-transforming ideology like Hitler's Nazism"

Lewis clearly based Windrip on Huey Long. Is the Kingfish Huey Long, a predecessor to the current real-life leader?

Hugin

(36,802 posts)
20. Gee, where have I seen that before...
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:19 AM
Sunday

Oh, yeah. Project 2025 is one place.

If only we were warned!

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