Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Tuesday Tweets -- MAGA International

This was going to be a really long tweet post, too long, so we'll be doing this week's tweets in more manageable bites, starting with these threads that provide some context to the turmoil in Brazil.

One of the points we've been arguing for years here at the blog is that you can't use the standard political analyst/social scientist approach to the current incarnation of the conservative movement. Old models of socioeconomic forces, traditional alliances, and rational actors are next to useless. Instead we need to talk about propaganda and disinformation (much of it gone feral), indoctrination, cults of personality, the politics of catharsis, and in the following example, a coordinated international effort to spread fascism, something we'd have to call a massive conspiracy if it wasn't almost completely in the open.






I think she means Veritas and Erik Prince.

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