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Remember These Resisters
You Are the Resistance Too — Let’s Fight Together
Week One of the second MAGA administration was the deluge extremists threatened America and the rest of the world with during the campaign. Whiplash Week kickstarted the perpetual distraction and disorientation specifically designed to feel like the sword of Damocles, to keep dissenters unmoored and afraid. But in MAGA 2.0, it feels like all the swords all the time.
Overwhelm is a tactic. It is calculated. But it only works if we let it.
“The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. All we have to do is to flood the zone. Every day, we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never be able to recover, but we got to start with muzzle velocity so it’s gotta start and it’s gotta hammer.”
The explicit strategy of Steve Bannon, (former Trump chief strategist, quoted above from 2019), advances the agenda of the America First Policy Institute, a less sensationalized endeavor than Project 2025, but no less invidious in its intentions to eliminate checks and balances, to eradicate opposition, and to engender loyalty to the current MAGA frontman. Founded just in 2021, they are a…
