RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115957125308834255
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race”
“‘I cannot support the…stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
“‘National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,‘ he said”
“calling ICE operations in the state an ‘unmitigated disaster’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/republican-chris-madel-minnesota-governor-race-ice
@inthehands Am I being jaded if I think that this will only mean that the Dems will now field the most right-wing candidate they can find?
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”
“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”
“sudden demotion”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb
@inthehands Ernst Röhm called from 1934, he wants a word…
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”
“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”
“sudden demotion”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race”
“‘I cannot support the…stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
“‘National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,‘ he said”
“calling ICE operations in the state an ‘unmitigated disaster’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/republican-chris-madel-minnesota-governor-race-ice
@inthehands They shouldn’t be able to win in any race. What they have done and allowed to happen is beyond disgusting.
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They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“top Republican candidate for Minnesota governor has dropped out of the race”
“‘I cannot support the…stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.’”
“‘National Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota,‘ he said”
“calling ICE operations in the state an ‘unmitigated disaster’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/republican-chris-madel-minnesota-governor-race-ice
It might not be too late for democracy.
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It might not be too late for democracy.
@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago. -
@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.It's only too late when enough of us decide it's too late.
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@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.@inthehands @Soulshine We're still in the consilidating power phase, and the more pushback this gets the more the authoritarian coalition in power is fragmenting and infighting - they have gained ground in some areas, but lost it in others, and will lose more as the coalition fragments and as the dems and courts are forced to act more firmly against them.
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@inthehands @Soulshine We're still in the consilidating power phase, and the more pushback this gets the more the authoritarian coalition in power is fragmenting and infighting - they have gained ground in some areas, but lost it in others, and will lose more as the coalition fragments and as the dems and courts are forced to act more firmly against them.
@miss_rodent @Soulshine
Yes. Their increasing physical aggression is a sign of weakness, not of progress. I still stand by this now: -
@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.Miller moved too fast. Possible he thought the whole move fast and break things tech approach would work. Maybe it was more of realization that midterms results did not look promising. And I can't discount that it is just arrogance that led him to believe he could do it in just a year.
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It's only too late when enough of us decide it's too late.
@smattymatty @inthehands @Soulshine And even if in some moment it does become “too late”, it’s never a one way door.
Critical mass can be built to once again make it tenable. Look at history, people have lived under lords at many different times and places. That doesn’t mean that once it’s so, it cannot be undone.
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Miller moved too fast. Possible he thought the whole move fast and break things tech approach would work. Maybe it was more of realization that midterms results did not look promising. And I can't discount that it is just arrogance that led him to believe he could do it in just a year.
I think that's a pretty accurate analysis.
They did a competent job with their unprecedented ideological cleansing during his first term but they're fumbling the ball now. -
I think that's a pretty accurate analysis.
They did a competent job with their unprecedented ideological cleansing during his first term but they're fumbling the ball now.Trump just said people can't bring guns to protests. Talk about a fumble.
I honestly do not think he has any idea what he is saying anymore. And if the NRA and libertarians turn on him, they will make the upcoming GOP primaries all about the Second Amendment.
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@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.@inthehands @Soulshine
Thank you for giving us hope right from the eye of the storm (Minneapolis these days). Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and here in Berlin, as elsewhere, the phrase "never again" is being emphasised once more. You have lived through it in recent weeks, and if there is anything good to be found in the situation, it is perhaps that we all finally understand how things could have come to this back then. -
Miller moved too fast. Possible he thought the whole move fast and break things tech approach would work. Maybe it was more of realization that midterms results did not look promising. And I can't discount that it is just arrogance that led him to believe he could do it in just a year.
@Hey_Beth @Soulshine
I strongly suspect that Miller (and many others adjacent) truly believed that the vast majority of white people secretly hate immigrants and brown people and want them all gone but are just too afraid to do anything — and they thus assumed that ICE’s violence have widespread support. The massive degree to which white people in Minneapolis-St. Paul do •not• feel this way caught them completely off guard. They’ve spent an embarrassingly long time clinging to the idea that it’s just a few people opposing them. I hope that seeing 50,000 people marching at -10°F registered as a punch in their shriveled, horrible gut. -
@Hey_Beth @Soulshine
I strongly suspect that Miller (and many others adjacent) truly believed that the vast majority of white people secretly hate immigrants and brown people and want them all gone but are just too afraid to do anything — and they thus assumed that ICE’s violence have widespread support. The massive degree to which white people in Minneapolis-St. Paul do •not• feel this way caught them completely off guard. They’ve spent an embarrassingly long time clinging to the idea that it’s just a few people opposing them. I hope that seeing 50,000 people marching at -10°F registered as a punch in their shriveled, horrible gut.Oh, I think you are correct. Miller and others absolutely failed to understand the unpopularity of their racists beliefs.
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@Soulshine
It is •definitely• not too late. One year in, we are still in the “consolidating power” of the authoritarian takeover — “still in” meaning it has •not• succeeded yet, implying it can still fail. And honestly, it’s looking •less• successful now than it did 6 months ago.@inthehands @Soulshine It's definitely approaching the Senator Joe McCarthy Army Hearings with Roy Cohn in the side-car.
Have you no sense of decency sir
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At long last, have you left no sense of decency
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@inthehands @Soulshine It's definitely approaching the Senator Joe McCarthy Army Hearings with Roy Cohn in the side-car.
Have you no sense of decency sir
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At long last, have you left no sense of decencyI was thinking the same recently:
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It's only too late when enough of us decide it's too late.
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Just to reiterate:
Trump admin are trying to give Senators an excuse, any excuse, not to block funding to DHS.
We need to make sure that doesn’t work. Don’t let up. Keep them all afraid.
Noem, who’s in danger of being sacked, is trying to throw Stephen Miller under the bus. Meanwhile Miller is on TV trying to throw DHS under the bus. Basically they’re shitting their pants and flinging it at each other.
It’s working. Punch them harder.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3mdgo4t4md22k
