I don’t disagree with you on that.
Yesterday I saw a tweet in a thread by David Frum. It’s basically an endorsement of DeSantis but the wording and the context gives Frum deniability. If DeSantis becomes president - Frum can always say “Trump would be worse.”
Others disagree, but in my opinion, a DeSantis GOP nomination in 2024 represented a much better outcome for the whole country than a Trump return. Maybe you don’t like DeSantis’s manner or record, but he’s a recognizably normal US politician. If defeated, he’d go peacefully. 9/x
Not only is DeSantis probably 100 times worse than Trump - his presidency would surely usher in open Christo Fascism with neo-brownshirts (white guys in wraparound Oakleys in camo) beating people on the street with impunity. And somehow the cops and the FBI never manage to even ID them much less arrest them. Eventually it will escalate to murder.
I’m Jewish and so is Frum. Somewhere in his poisoned brain - Frum must realize that even though Jews won’t be the first targets - the fascists will get to us eventually. That’s how it works. I bet he even knows the etymology of the word pogrom…
Yiddish and Russian, literally “devastation”, from pogromit “destroy by the use of violence”.
There’s no asterisk that says *devastation will end at edge of gated communities where right-wing Jews live. But Frum has convinced himself that people like him could never face any consequences. It simply is an impossibility. Frum will have to wait until somebody he knows he knocked to the ground by some rando who laughs and calls him a stupid Jew. Frum’s acquiesce will call 911, the cops will come, and the cops laugh at him too.
Frum will have to wait until somebody he knows he knocked to the ground by some rando who laughs and calls him a stupid Jew. Frum’s acquiesce will call 911, the cops will come, and the cops laugh at him too.
And then Frum will blame people who called for defunding the police.
That too. Oops. That’s a notable oversight on my part. He’ll write a 10,000 word article on defund in The Atlantic that nobody will read but right-wingers (and libs too) will quote.
“Violent attacks upon minorities must be understood through the prism of public attitudes towards the law and law enforcement. The ‘defund the police’ movement began a process of…” SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP!
It will probably be some bullshit about how that movement sent “rational cops” to the arms of the far right.
open Christo Fascism with neo-brownshirts
If I was DeSantis I’d finish what trump started; Purging the civil service and executive branch and installing people loyal to me and my ideology. And DeSantis has an ideology in a way that Trump really doesn’t.
so is Frum
I will never understand right wing Jews. The only way it makes sense is if you’ve got an escape plan to get to Israel and can leave at any moment, because otherwise you’re constantly making common cause with people who hate you and want to exterminate you, and for the most part they’re not even subtle about it. Like they’re either completely delusion and think that the rest of the Right are genuinely their allies, or they think they can play with fire and duck out right before they get incinerated. I really don’t understand it.
I assume DeSantis probably doesn’t care if people get murdered on the street or not. But he wants power above all else. And I can imagine that if he’s the president and he feels it will help him he says the “streets needs to be cleaned of… problems” knowing full-well that the hogs know that problems means filth. And that’s anybody the hogs want to beat on or worse.
I hope I’m wrong but every time I watch even a brief clip of that turd - I get tense and my stomach knots up. I’m sure of one thing beyond any doubt - he’s a vile fucker.
