I am telling you. Many of Vance’s points are things I myself said in speeches in the last six months. I’ve been using this space for years to warn about the same mechanisms he singled out (and he didn’t even really talk about the DSA). The U.S. for its own self-preservation needed to break from what the EU years ago called an effort to “…
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“He who saves his country does not violate any law.” - Donald Trump, yesterday in a pinned tweet.
I have always avoided the term “fascist” with Trump because it’s not entirely accurate from the point of view of history.
But this is unequivocally a fascist statement, almost a perfect distillation of the view that a great man should command the state and the rule of law should be set aside as outdated or too corrupted to continue.
We are used to these provocations. But I can’t see how anyone support…