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Don't Be a Sucker, Unplug Tucker! Lawyer Says: WATCHING FOX NEWS DROVE MY CLIENT CRAZY...

He's Not Guilty (By Reason of Insanity) of Participating in the Failed Overthrow of the US Government on 1/6/2021. It's all Tucker's Fault! 
Don't Be a SUCKER - Unplug TUCKER - Carlson Admits - My CrazyTalk® Helped the Democrats Win - I'm so very sorry - meme - gvan42
Don't Be a SUCKER - Unplug TUCKER -
Carlson Admits - My CrazyTalk®
Helped the Democrats Win - I'm so very sorry... 

 

Capitol Rioter's Lawyer Says Client Had 'Foxitis' From Watching Too Much Fox News... 

Former President Donald Trump's lies about the validity of the 2020 election prompted a mob of his extremist followers to storm the United States Capitol in a deadly failed insurrection this past January.

Exacerbating Trump's delusional claims that the election was "stolen" by Democrats engaging in widespread fraud was the embrace with which Republican lawmakers and right wing media greeted these claims. https://secondnexus.com/capitol-rioter-foxitis-defense-lawyer

"Foxmania": Capitol attackers are blaming Fox News in court for their radicalization.

He started "believing what was being fed to him" by the conservative network and President Donald Trump

Ironically, this comes after a lawsuit against Fox News host Tucker Carlson for slander. In the 2020 case, Fox News explained that Carlson isn't even remotely credible.
The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary,'" said Fox lawyers at the time.

Lawyer Says Capitol Defendant Had ‘Foxmania’ From Watching Too Much Fox News... 

For roughly six months after he was laid off, Anthony Antonio was in a home where Fox News played constantly, his attorney told a court. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-antonio-foxmania-capitol_n_

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Twitter, Truth Social, Ello, FaceBorg, Mastodon, Minds,

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In 2016 Putin Proved that Campaigning Online Works! His Puppet Won...


Including Trolling for Trump and Cash Donations... 

Well, I Don't Have any Cash to Donate So
I'll Troll on Social Media... and You Can TOO!

QAnon Shaman says I Was Duped
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#ArrestTrump - Contact the DOJ and Tell 'em to

 Enforce The Law! #LockHimUP - Here's the 

Link to Email the Department of Justice.

They Won't Outlaw Crime Unless You Tell 'em:
"DO YOUR JOB!"

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GTFO! Insurrectionist Banned from Office for January 6th Uprising... The 14th Amendment sought to disqualify those who took up arms against the United States from serving in elected office.

Insurrectionist Banished from Office for January 6th Participation... The third section of the 14th Amendment sought to disqualify those who took up arms against the United States from serving in elected office.
QAnon FREAK Arrested, Convicted 
and Banned for Life!


A New Mexico judge on Tuesday ordered the co-founder of Cowboys for Trump removed from public office over his presence at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. State District Court Judge Francis Mathew removed Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin from his elected position “effective immediately” and banned him from seeking further public office, citing the 14th Amendment’s clause barring those who have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution from holding federal or state office if they have engaged “in insurrection or rebellion.” https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/cowboys-trump-co-founder-barred-office-rcna46525

A state judge in New Mexico may have finally helped shift that dynamic when dealing with Otero County commissioner Couy Griffin, who not only was a front-line participant in the riot, but then refused to certify 2022 election results in his county, demanding a phony “audit” of the 2020 results instead. However, after Griffin was convicted in federal court for entering the Capitol, First District Judge Francis Mathew on Monday banned Griffin from office, calling his attempts to rewrite history about Jan. 6 “putting lipstick on a pig.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/6/2121168/-New-Mexico-county-commissioner-banned-from-office-for-participating-in-Jan-6-insurrection

A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin’s participation in it disqualified him under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/judge-removes-couy-griffin-from-office-for-engaging-in-the-january-6-insurrection/



Happy Days Are Here Again! Ever Since Trump Helped Democrats Win the House, Senate and Presidency, Life in the USA has Taken a Turn for The Better. Thanks Joe!

Due to Trump's Failures, Millions of Voters Chose to #Runaway from the Republican't Party... Everybody Sing Along... 


I Predict a Massive Democratic 
Victory Nationwide in 2022.
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Trump: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire MEME by gvan42


Help Democrats Win Congress by Sharing Their Campaign Websites on Social Media. Here's a List! Simply Copy and Paste the Link and a Short Description...

https://www.rebekahjonescampaign.com/ 

Rebekah Jones is running against Republican Matt Gaetz for US House of Representatives in Florida. #FreeNestor She's Really Smart and We Need Smart People in the House!

Rebekah Jones for Congress meme

Adam Frisch is Running against a Notorious QAnon FREAK... Lauren Boebert... 

https://www.greybullforcongress.com/
Lynnette Greybull is Running Against the Republican't that Just Beat Liz Cheney... 

Believe there is good in the world

When I look at my fellow Wyomingites, I don't see millionaires, I see everyday, hardworking people who want to do what's right for their families and their neighbors.

https://marcusforgeorgia.com/

Marcus Flowers is the Democrat running to defeat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th District. 

https://sitesforcongress.com/ Jeffrey Sites is running against Republican Jim Jordan for the US House of Representatives in Ohio. 

https://lucyforcongress.com/  About Lucy: The most important title that Congresswoman Lucy McBath will ever hold is “Mom.” 

https://katieporter.com/ Katie Porter is serving her second term in Congress, representing California's 45th Congressional District. Once a UC Irvine law professor and nationally-renowned consumer advocate who held Wall Street banks accountable for ripping off California consumers and homeowners during the financial crisis.

https://markkelly.com/ Mark Kelly Says: I’m running for the United States Senate because Washington is broken and Arizonans deserve independent leadership focused on solving the problems we face. When I’m traveling around Arizona with my wife Gabby Giffords, many of you come up to say hello. 

Gary Chambers’ mission in life is Do Good, Seek Justice. He’s been leading the fight for a better, more just Louisiana. Gary is a leading social justice advocate based in Baton Rouge.

Running against Senator John Kennedy... "You Can't Fix Stupid but You Can Vote Him Out." 

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https://catherinecortezmasto.com/

Catherine Cortez Masto is Running for Senate in Nevada against a TrumpNik® Named Adam Laxalt...  

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https://philarballo.com/ Phil Arballo Was Running Against Evil Republican Devin Nunes for the US House of Representatives near Fresno. BUT, DEVIN HAS QUIT POLITICS to Become President of the Trump Media Corporation... WhatEVER... Thanks For Quitting! Now, Move out of California. Just GTFO! 

https://www.kermitjonesforcongress.com/ Dr. Kermit Jones Says: As a doctor and a veteran, my life has been guided by a series of oaths – to my patients and to our country. Now, I'm running against Republican Tom McClintock to represent the people of California's 4th Congressional District.

https://charliecrist.com/ Charlie Crist is running for Governor of Florida Against Ron Death Santa. 

https://staceyabrams.com/ Stacey Abrams is running for Governor of Georgia against Brian Kemp... Who Stole the Election Last Time by Throwing Out Democratic Votes... 

https://johnfetterman.com/ John Fetterman is running for Senator in Pennsylvania. John doesn’t look like a typical politician, and more importantly, he doesn’t act like one. He supported legalizing marijuana before it was popular, officiated a same-sex marriage before it was legal, and pushed for single payer healthcare long before it was mainstream. The issues John is running on now are the same issues he’s been working on for the last two decades.

https://timforoh.com/ Tim Ryan is a relentless advocate for Ohio’s working families. He’s running for U.S. Senate to cut workers in on the deal. Ohioans are working harder than ever, but they’re falling further behind. In the Senate, Tim will fight to raise wages, make healthcare more affordable, invest in education, rebuild our public infrastructure, and revitalize manufacturing so we can make things in Ohio again. 

https://valdemings.com/ Val Demings is Running for US Senate against Republican Marco Rubio for US Senate in Florida.

https://warnockforgeorgia.com/ Ralph Warnock is running to be Re-Elected Senator from Georgia. Republican Candidate is Yet to be Chosen.  

https://castenforcongress.com/ 

Sean Casten is a respected scientist, clean energy entrepreneur, and author 

https://www.marinazimmerman.com/ Republican candidate Marina Zimmerman is running against Lauren Boebert in the Colorado Primary for the House of Representatives... 

https://betoorourke.com  Beto O'Rourke is Running Against Republican Greg Abbott for Governor of Texas. 

There are Plenty of Other Candidates to Promote... Who Will Defeat Republican Ron Johnson from Wisconsin? I Don't Know Yet! 

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2022 GOP Plan if they win the House and Senate: More Tax Cuts for the Rich, Outlaw Abortion and Birth Control, Impeach Biden, Impeach Harris, Privatize Social Security and Medicare, Repeal and Replace Obamacare. 

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It's the 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's Failed War on Drugs. June 17th, 2021... Doing the Same Thing Again and Again and Again While Expecting Different Results IS INSANE!

"Everybody" says that the Failed War on Drugs Has Caused Massive Incarceration of Black and Brown Men... While that is True... Is that a Bad Thing? YES, It's a Bad Thing. 



Isn't the Failed War on Drugs Just a "Sneaky" Way to Perform Genocide? While those Men are Locked Up, They Certainly are NOT Fathering Children... Making Entire Generations of Americans Whiter... Because Women Select a Sperm Donor from the UN-Incarcerated Population... A KKK Dream Come True... 

50th Anniversary Nixon's Failed War on Drugs 6/17/2021

Marijuana has become Legal in Many States... Over Half!

Psychedelic Plants have become Decriminalized in Many Towns... So... Nixon's Attack on Hippies Failed... HA HA... LOSER... 

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics - gvan42


Now I Read in the Newspaper that Black and Brown Men are Dying from Fentanyl Overdoses... Huh... Isn't THAT Convenient? 

An Absolutely Certain Way to Prevent Their Genes from Showing Up in Future Generations... 


Here's a Classic Sermon on this Subject: 

June 17, 2021, will mark 50 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared drugs to be “public enemy number one,” launching a national campaign to criminalize drug use. War on drugs policies have led to mass incarceration, civil liberties abuses, over-policing and mistreatment of people of color, and human rights violations in the United States and around the world. Meanwhile, nearly 500,000 people died in the United States alone from opioid overdose in from 1999 to 2019, with death rates still accelerating steadily. 

To mark this milestone, faith leaders, as part of Open Society grantee Faith in Harm Reduction’s sermon series, will memorialize the victims of the war on drugs and affirm that people who use drugs are deserving of life, dignity, and rights.

IS THAT TRUE? ARE THEY VICTIMS?https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/sermon-series-50th-anniversary-of-the-war-on-drugs

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It's Amazing that Within a Week of the Thousands of Haiti Refugees (Black People) were Spotted Living Under a Bridge in Texas... They Were Airlifted Right Back Where They Came From... 

That Same Week the Federal Government Allowed Thousands of Refugees from Afghanistan to Immigrate to The Good Old USA... 

Obviously Racist... 

Legalize Hemp and Marijuana - meme


ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “WAR ON DRUGS,” POLL SHOWS MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT ENDING CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR DRUG POSSESSION, THINK DRUG WAR IS A FAILURE... https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/50th-anniversary-war-drugs-poll-shows-majority-voters-support-ending-criminal


Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics - swirling colors

I Heard It Said That LSD Was Invented at the Same Time as the Atom Bomb... In Order to Balance the Universe... 

ask your doctor meme


"War, Ungh, What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing... say it Again... Headline: After 50 Years Of The War On Drugs, 'What Good Is It Doing For Us?' https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us


Digital Rainbow Spiral by gvan42


America has spent over a trillion dollars fighting Richard Nixon's Failed war on drugs. 50 years later, drug use in the U.S. is climbing again. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html

Let's Make January 6th a National Holiday. "Democracy Day" - The Day When the USA Defeated the Monarchists That Tried To Overthrow The US Government and Crown Trump Czar.

 

"I was Duped" says QAnon Shaman
"I was Duped" says QAnon Shaman

Just Like the Fourth of July When We Threw King George of England OUT... 

or December 7th when Enemies of the USA Bombed Pearl Harbor... 

1/6 is a Day That We All Should Remember... TREASON FAILED!

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!





Marjorie Taylor Greene Cancels QAnon Civil War Scheduled for September... https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-admits-trump-134454232.html "I want people to be careful in what they believe."

Virtually all new Covid deaths and hospitalizations are among unvaccinated people, White House says... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/08/covid-vaccines-nearly-all-deaths-hospitalizations-among-unvaccinated.html

ZERO Jail Time for Anna Morgan-Lloyd. Convicted Rioter in Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow of the US Government and Crown Himself CZAR on January 6th, 2021

Anna Morgan-Lloyd, 49, from rural Indiana, had pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor for trespassing inside the Capitol as part of the crowd on January 6. She was also assessed a $500 fine. 

I wonder WHY She Got NO Jail Time? She Clearly Did The Crime... Was It Pre-Meditated? She Lives in Indiana and Travelled to Washington DC to Attend Trump's Speech... Could It Be That She was Swept Up By The Madness of Crowds? She was Assigned Three Years Probation... SO, DON'T TRY TO OVERTHROW THE US GOVERNMENT AGAIN! 

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Judge rebukes GOP for downplaying US Capitol riot as he hands out first sentence in insurrection... 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/politics/capitol-rioter-sentenced/index.html

Anna Morgan-Lloyd. Convicted Rioter in Trump's Failed Overthrow of the US Government on January 6th, 2021

Capitol Rioter Anna Morgan-Lloyd Avoids Jail Time for Role in Insurrection... 

https://www.newsweek.com/capitol-rioter-anna-morgan-lloyd-avoids-jail-time-role-insurrection-1603441

#BubbleUP Economics Works! Raise the Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars an Hour - Raise All Social Security Checks 15% - WE PROMISE TO SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY. Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits... EVERYBODY WINS!


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What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! 

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...

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and then on Facebook SC Said: 
This post has appeared in my feed several times now, and I'm disgusted by some of the things people are saying: calling employees "lazy" for not cleaning up the mess, and saying that they probably don't have enough employees because people "don't want to work because they get more on unemployment." I worked at JC Penney for 4 years, and this is very common in retail stores. It's NOT because employees are lazy. Employees can only do so much, and customers can truly be disgusting pigs! I could write a book about all of the nasty, disgusting things customers did when I worked at JCP. Employees did the best they could to keep up, but you can only do so much when a store is busy and you have to ring customers up on the register, or you have to help customers on the sales floor. During the holiday season, they hired extra seasonal workers whose entire job was to do nothing but fold clothes and put things back where they belonged, and even with extra employees, it was STILL impossible to keep up with the speed at which the customers went through and destroyed everything. This is NOT the fault of "lazy" workers. If you've ever worked in a department store, especially a big chain like a Macy's, you're not ALLOWED to be "lazy." The management makes sure the employees are doing their work at all times...and if a store is messy, I can promise you that there are people constantly working to get it cleaned up! 
I'm getting really sick and tired of hearing this mantra that "people don't want to work because they get more on unemployment." People DON'T get more on unemployment. Unemployment is NEVER as much as you make by working, and unemployment is finite. It doesn't last forever. Also, you don't get to just say, "I don't feel like working, so I think I'll just collect unemployment instead." In order to qualify for unemployment, you have to have been let go from your last job. You can't voluntarily quit a job and then collect unemployment. You have to be let go, and then you have to constantly show them that you are looking for work, and you can't turn down any work if it's offered. So no, nobody is just refusing to work because they'd rather collect unemployment. The system isn't set up that way. 
Customers in retail stores need to start showing a little more respect for retail workers. You probably look down on retail workers just like you look down at "burger-flippers." How DARE these people want a living wage?!?!? And in the meantime, you come in and trash their place of employment, probably thinking to yourself, "I don't have to clean up my mess. That's THEIR job! The lazy bums!" Show a little respect for working people. Quit trashing retail stores, and quit saying that nobody wants to work. And when you see a post like this one, quit blaming the employees and calling them "lazy." If you've ever worked retail, you KNOW this isn't the fault of the employees. They're working their tails off to wait on lazy, disgusting slobs who treat them like peons. Retail workers deserve a LOT more pay than they get, and they also deserve a lot more respect.

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What did Timothy Leary mean by "find the others"? Did he ever expand on this phrase? (Was he around to enjoy its popularity?) How did this phrase describe his own experiences? In what context does he suggest this course of action?
Here's the full quote from Timothy Leary :
Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.[2]

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Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA. Not Even Once. Ever Since Victory over Japan, Every War Has Been a BOGUS Marketing Trick Designed to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

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Trump-0-Nomics FAILED the 99% Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE!

Awaken Americans! The Talking Heads on TV Keep on Saying that the Economy is "Booming" - BUT - That's only true for the SUPER RICH... We the People are Hurting BAD!

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#TrumpHasFailed The U.S. economy suffered its worst period ever in the second quarter, with GDP falling 32.9%. Gross Domestic Product. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/trumphasfailed-us-economy-suffered-its.html

tRUMP Fired the Entire Pandemic Response Team in 2018... INSANE! #TrumpVirus Has Killed 150,000* Americans SO FAR... More than World War One, 9/11 and Charles Manson Combined! (Death Total as of 7/29/2020) https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/true-trump-fired-entire-pandemic.html

Winners Don't Need Excuses. Trump Supporters Give Endless Reasons for His Failure... But they Never Dispute the Fact That #TrumpHasFailed https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/winners-dont-need-excuses-trump.html

Trump's Plan: MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN! The Big Winners of Trump's Trade War are Russian Soybean Farmers... China Refused to Buy from the USA, So the Russians Stepped Right Up and Took advantage of Trump's Mistake... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/08/trumps-plan-make-russia-great-again-big.html

Remember: REFUSE TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE US MILITARY. Why Die For Corporate Profit? I Interviewed Hundreds of Veterans and They ALL Said It Was A Mistake... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/remember-refuse-to-volunteer-for-us.html

There Was Fifteen Years of Peace Following the End of The Vietnam War. WE WOKE UP! Americans Refused to Participate in Bogus Wars for Corporate Profit. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/there-was-fifteen-years-of-peace.html

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Former GW Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson
"President Richard Nixon demonstrated that the GOP could win with a message of White grievance. That dubious achievement somehow got lodged in Donald Trump’s brain as a political ideal. But this time it will lead his party toward eventual and deserved failure.
Amid the social turbulence of the late 1960s and early 1970s, many White people were convinced that American identity was being assaulted, diluted or corrupted. Some tried to blame African American rioters, radicals and “agitators.” Some placed the main responsibility on hippies, weak-kneed liberals and pointy-headed intellectuals. Nixon took such resentments and sent them into political battle.
The strategy made political (though not moral) sense. When Nixon announced the existence of a “silent majority” in late 1969 and employed the “Southern strategy” in two presidential elections, he had two things going for him. First, about 88 percent of the U.S. population was White. Second, the social disorders that Nixon decried were widespread. In July 1967 alone, there were riots in Newark (where 26 people died), Plainfield, N.J.; Minneapolis; Detroit (where 43 people were killed); and Milwaukee. After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in early 1968, violence spread to more than 100 cities. In that demographic and social environment, appeals to “law and order” were often disturbingly effective.
It sometimes seems like Trump has just emerged from a time machine — fresh from a delightful strategy lunch with Vice President Spiro Agnew, an instructive discussion on campaign ethics with Attorney General John Mitchell and an editing session with speechwriter Pat Buchanan. Trump stokes fears that minorities will invade the suburbs, that migrants will steal jobs and rape women and that Muslim refugees are “Trojan horse” threats. He attacks journalists as “enemies of the people.” He tries to lump peaceful protesters with violent provocateurs. It is all very much like Nixon — without the intelligence, military service, governing experience or geostrategic insight.
Trump’s advocates cite some factors in their favor. They claim that the dislocation caused by globalization is the dry underbrush for their populist wildfire. And among White evangelicals, Trump has taken full advantage of the fear and resentment fueled by lost social status.
But this is not Nixon’s America. About 72 percent of the American population is now White, and more minority children than White children are being born each year. Even given recent events in Portland, Ore., and Chicago, the level of social disorder does not compare to the late 1960s. A solid majority of Americans supports the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement, rather than fearing (as Fox News’s Tucker Carlson charmingly put it) that it will “come for you.”
It is absurd to talk about White grievance politics as the wave of the political future. Republicans are now determining if the 2016 presidential election was the last time this message worked, or the second-to-last time. The stakes are high between those two possibilities. But the direction of American society toward greater diversity is not in doubt.
This recognition (or its absence) matters greatly to the immediate future of Republican politics at the national level. One faction of thinkers and prospective presidential candidates (such as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton) believes that the Trump wave is the new, permanent level of the ideological tide. They seek to practice Trump’s grievance politics minus the crazy. But they underestimate how discredited this type of politics has become because of Trump’s cruelty and deadly incompetence — and how complete the public repudiation of the GOP is likely to be in November.
The Nixon/Trump practice of White grievance politics is just one Republican ideological option. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ronald Reagan reorganized the GOP message around the principle of economic opportunity, arguing for the moral achievements of democratic capitalism. Reagan disciples such as Jack Kemp turned a message of economic empowerment into an instrument of outreach.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, George W. Bush attempted to reconstitute the Republican message around the theme of community. Since human beings are shaped in the context of social institutions — such as families, neighborhoods and charitable organizations — compassionate conservatives sought ways to strengthen civil society.
These are the three elements of the modern Republican ideological triad: identity, opportunity and community. Contending that the last two are discredited or irrelevant is a ploy by Trump supporters and Trump’s liberal opponents to reduce Republican ideology to identity alone.
The appeal of opportunity is never spent because it is the economic expression of human creativity and institution building. The appeal of civil society is never finally exhausted because it emerges from our need for belonging and love. You might as well declare that the human kidney or liver is outdated.
The Trump occupation of the GOP is an intellectual and moral disaster. But there are paths of intellectual recovery beyond the ruins."

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