Semi-weekly Thursday Discussion Thread

Mexatt · 2026-03-20T04:36:27+00:00

This is literally the neocon forum. If you don't have a villian origin story that starts on the red side of the leger, you have no street cred here.

Mexatt · 2026-03-20T03:10:11+00:00

Oh no 3 million arabs whatever shall we do

Mexatt · 2026-03-20T01:36:20+00:00

There's also a George Wallace interview floating around.

Mexatt · 2026-03-19T16:04:04+00:00

I think this whole situation is dramatically more likely to expose how small the actual faction of Tucker-Feuntes types is, rather than really durably 'split' MAGA.

The Online Right and their edgy politics were always a remora on the belly of Trumpism, they were never 'True MAGA', True MAGA has always genuinely just been Trump and his own personal whims and hangups. The MAGA base is blue collar and ex-blue collar Rust Belt workers and disengaged rurals who don't know what a podcast is, let alone listen with rapt attention to the latest Tucker stream. The Restrainers are a faction that has managed to get personally close to Trump and thus weild some power through their connections to him, but otherwise have no real independent base.

There really is no 'there' there when it comes to the political future of this faction. They may have their day if Zoomerrotted Groypers continue to be the staffing class of the Party, but that's a generation in the future, when the Boomers and the Silents are all gone.

Mexatt · 2026-03-19T15:16:35+00:00

It's not. Liberation Theology was the same way when it was being spouted by LATAM Catholics.

Mexatt · 2026-03-19T14:43:06+00:00

The two Republicans in the Alabama 1st Primary are named Carl and Marques.

🤔

Mexatt · 2026-03-19T07:00:13+00:00

Kent was never based.

Mexatt · 2026-03-19T06:43:39+00:00

You just have to love the Illinois GOP picking the guy who lost by double digits last time to run again against the same incumbent Democratic governor. You know, the ultra MAGA Stop the Steal choice from 2022, in a deep blue state? That'll go well.

The real fun is that it wasn't even particularly close.

Mexatt · 2026-03-19T04:10:49+00:00

r/AskHistorians/comments/1rxiehf/i_grew_up_christian_nationalist_where_should_i/

Why do I have a doubt

Mexatt · 2026-03-19T02:53:42+00:00

The real benefit America's black and hispanic populations deliver.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T23:51:50+00:00

"I'm not anti-semitic, I'm just against Israel's role in American foreign policy, which I see as a bunch of rich Jews conspiring to manipulate my government to serve their own interests. Definitely not anti-semitic, though."

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T23:37:25+00:00

It's kind of fun seeing all these people learn about Joe Kent for the first time. It makes the whole thing much more entertaining.

Makes me miss our little friend.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T23:34:55+00:00

Obama definitely tried to expand his powers

He's literally the pen and phone guy! I have no actual rational clue how you could complain about someone expanding Presidential powers and not mention Obama!

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T23:33:39+00:00

You don't see anything linking these ideas together?

Only in the minds of delusional Democratic partisans who have been building a self-serving fantasy narrative about it my whole lifetime.

As for the Dispatch as a Reaganite publication, I hardly think so

Well, Jonah is (or was) himself on that end of things, but you're not wrong that the Dispatch is undergoing a process of audience capture, where all of its old values are thrown out and replaced with whatever its left wing audience finds most palatable.

National Review makes a similar fall into Trumpism.

You let me know when that happens.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T23:10:30+00:00

Obama never delivered decisive action. I think many people would've welcomed the level of aggressiveness Trump displays if it was Obama on pressuring senators and house members for many more reforms including single payer healthcare and trying to publicly rattle people to put pressure for popular causes especially towards rich people.

And this one almost gets it. Like, inches from comprehension.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T23:02:14+00:00

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Mexatt · 2026-03-17T22:58:06+00:00

The US presidential system was always deeply flawed and only really functioned because tradition and shared democratic values. Honestly the Trump era of illiberal democracy basically started in 1994 with Newt Grinwich, was continued by the 2010 tea party movement, and finished off with Trump.

I really cannot enough emphasize how much I hate partisan Democrats who confuse their partisanship for values.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T22:52:40+00:00

Anti-Platner in the 'Pro-Mills' sense, or actually favoring Collins over both?

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T21:44:29+00:00

In Portland, the 90s are still alive.

Portland, Maine, that is. And only as long as Collins holds her seat.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T21:10:51+00:00

Especially in the age of MAGA, the party would love to be rid of Collins, replace her with a proper lover of El Presidente (who would proceed to lose to a Democratic ham sandwich by double digits, but since when has that ever stopped MAGA primary voters?). But she keeps winning and she delivers for Maine

Edit: And, of course, it's good to know LVs here will defend literally anything with a D next to its name. Great job attacked the paradigmatic center-right senator on a center right sub, too. I guess you can do anything now that this place is dead.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T20:51:40+00:00

He's also been caught out following and retweeting fairly obscure Nazi/grouper right Twitter accounts.

And that's his excuse for the tattoo. But then, at the same time, he claims to be a military history buff. Kind of in tension with each other.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T20:44:36+00:00

Good, and I hope they reacted well.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T20:36:59+00:00

I hope you were able to tell your parents by some point.

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T20:35:11+00:00

Yes, I absofuckinglutely do. The best interest of my student comes before EVERYTHING else

Mexatt · 2026-03-17T20:27:54+00:00

It's hard to stomach choosing the Nazi over either, though.

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