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WE HAVE TO WANT IT MORE. PERIOD. That Means Playing Rough. [1]

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Date: 2024-05-22  

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, an opponent of ours turned ally, publishes an outstanding Substack newsletter. He has some particularly valuable insights in his most recent one. If you aren’t a subscriber, let me quote some of it to you:

Joe Biden is a good man and a good President. His campaign is mechanically competent. His record of COVID recovery and economic reboot is praiseworthy. He’s not insane. He’s not a criminal. He’s not a rapist. He’s old, but coherent. This should be a blowout. After so many of his sins and failures, Trump should have been driven from American political life. Yet something keeps him ahead. It's been troubling me for days, a haunting idea I couldn’t pinpoint. It’s not just Fox News. It’s not just his celebrity. It’s not just three generations raised on the madhouse potion of talk radio, weaponized social media, and conspiracy garbage. It’s not just the intensity of the MAGA cult. They want it more. They want the win. [My emphasis] They crave power and have a vision for how to use it: revolution and transformation. They want a political reset, an end to changes that make them unhappy and uncomfortable—a world remade in Donald Trump’s image. It’s apocalyptic madness, but it’s real and powerful.

If you have not witnessed the insane fanaticism of the MAGAs personally, you may not not fully realize what we’re up against.

THEY REALLY DO HATE US.

THEY REALLY DO WANT US DESTROYED.

THEY REALLY DO WANT A RIGHT WING DICTATORSHIP.

THEY REALLY DO WANT TO FORCIBLY IMPOSE THEIR SICK, TWISTED RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ON EVERYONE ELSE.

I don’t know how I can say all this more clearly: THIS ELECTION IS THE BIG ONE. Everyone needs to be on deck, and we cannot fail!

We must confront the enemies of America—and let’s just say it, the MAGAs ARE enemies of America—in every medium. Yes, that includes Twitter (X), and progressives boycotting it are simply conceding this vastly influential space to the Radical Right. Here are people on Twitter that all progressives should consider following:

Laurence Tribe

Lakota Man

Jenny Cohn

Molly Ploofkins

Jim Stewartson

Rachel Bitecofer

Robert Reich

Noel Casler

I Smoked BBL Drizzy

Ricky Davila

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