It doesn’t help that the Bold New Idea that started this was that we needed a liberal Cold War against China to unify us.

And, beyond the moral horror, it’s just the geopolitical version of saying “We should go back to the way things where when I was respected and listened to.”

April 09, 2026 - 15:02 UTC

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One of the Bulwark dudes hearted me likening their plan to the conspiracy in "Watchmen" 🫠
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"Nostalgia for a pre-lapsarian past, which we need to return to with a fiery rebirth" is just fascism and the fact that they fundamentally have that mindset means that they are way too far gone to help tbh.
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This publication also has some of the most aggressively pro-AI/"abundance movement" liberals out there, so you're not wrong!
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And that's not even really a highly questioned position, it's a pretty clear hallmark of a fascistic ideology. The sort of third way liberalism a lot of these guys have tried to launder into something respectable is just a xerox of a mimeograph of Mussolini's fascism.
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The French used to say about the Bourbons that they “Learned nothing and forgot nothing.

The context was that they’d lost power in the Revolution because they fucked up, regained power basically through luck, and then pissed it away again because all they had were old ideas and new grudges.
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