@andrewstroehlein "Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve."

Boom.

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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that (the depraved are) the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."

@andrewstroehlein "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. 1/2

@andrewstroehlein ... Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about 'Western civilization,' while armed brutes try to tear it down by force." 2/2

@andrewstroehlein Really good read; thanks for sharing it!

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MAGA assumes "the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling.

This has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the admin, and, in MN, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life."

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You could say that about anything Adam Serwer writes, always an insightful counterpoint to others at The Atlantic and much of the general punditry. Thanks for sharing.

@independentpen@mas.to @andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social There's actually a pattern here. The depraved, the criminal, the bigoted, the corrupt very frequently seem to operate on an unconscious belief that everyone else is secretly just like them. And therefore they're not doing anything wrong.

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"university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders."

In other words, people who get paid enough to remove themselves from the dirty working people who serve them.

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Shame on them. Shame!

@andrewstroehlein I hate these times so much.

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These types of people always 'assume' the worst in everyone, because it's exactly how they think, how they act... and they are incapable of thinking or understanding that others aren't as ignorant, racist, selfish and evil as they are.

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"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme."

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"Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."

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Wow! you are totally right! what an uplifting article. It really brings back hope that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

@andrewstroehlein @noiseician when you've lost the centrist rag's writers...

@xankarn @andrewstroehlein Neighbours only stay strangers if you keep it that way.

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