He was the #AmericanCatiline and thanks to #Project2025, he is the #RedCaesar.
#RedCaesar
If the Creepy Weirdos wanted #RedCaesar, We the People™ should give them what they want.
#Caesar did not actively defend Catiline.
While he had previously supported Catiline, he later distanced himself.
When accused of involvement, Caesar pointed to Cicero’s testimony that he had informed against Catiline.
Overall, Caesar maintained a cautious stance to avoid implicating himself in the #conspiracy.
#AmericanCatiline #CatilineLives #RedCaesar #history #republic
The #RedCaesar just isn’t the one the #Project2025 Christofascists had calculated and planned for.
Should’ve had Elmo has #RedCaesar on my #Project2025 bingo card.
Anton and Yarvin’s May 2021 conversation was recorded for the podcast of the American Mind,
a publication of the powerful rightwing #Claremont #Institute,
where Anton is a senior fellow,
and whose growing influence during the Trump era has seen it described as the “nerve center of the American right”.
💥On 8 December, Trump’s transition team announced that Anton would be appointed director of policy planning at the state department.
Anton also served in a communications role in Trump’s first-term national security council from February 2017 until April 2018,
resigning the day before neoconservative John Bolton assumed the role of national security adviser.
After leaving the first Trump administration, Anton did not abandon Trump,
but continued writing about US liberal democracy in bleak terms.
In "Up from Conservatism",
a 2023 anthology of essays edited by the executive director of Claremont’s "Center for the American Way of Life", Arthur Milikh,
Anton wrote that
“the United States peaked around 1965”,
and that Americans are ruled by
“a network of unelected bureaucrats … corporate-tech-finance senior management, ‘experts’ who set the boundaries of acceptable opinion,
and media figures who police those boundaries”.
Anton continued the discussion in sections headed
“The universities have become evil”,
“Our economy is fake”,
“The people are corrupt”,
“Our civilization has lost the will to live”.
His and Yarvin’s conversation was ostensibly about his 2020 book,
"The Stakes".
That book was controversial even on the right for its prolonged consideration of autocratic “Caesarism”
as a means of resolving American decadence.
In the book, he defined #Caesarism as a “form of one-man rule:
halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”.
He adds, though, that
“Caesarism is not tyranny, which, strictly understood,
is a regime that usurps a legitimate and functioning government”,
whereas Caesarism implements “authoritarian one-man rule partially legitimized by necessity”
– that is,
“the breakdown of republican, constitutional rule”,
adding that
“a nation no longer capable of ruling itself must yet be ruled”.
He writes that a
💥“Red Caesar” could be attractive to
“the reds” in the Republican coalition,
who he says are
“under constant rhetorical, political, and, increasingly, physical attack,
especially in blue states”,
-- making them “more likely to turn to a Caesar”.
Anton stops short of openly calling for authoritarian rule,
but in general, he writes that the advantages of Caesarism include
“continuity and stability”
and “the prospect of avoiding conflict”,
and that it “tends to engender calm”.
The #American founders held both #Caesar and #Catiline in deep contempt.
The originalists and textualists know this, and choose to memoryhole that fact.
Or, they are deeply ignorant of #history.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html
#SACR #ClaremontInstitute #RedCaesar
"New documents have shed light on the origins and inner workings of the shadowy Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR)..."
The Guardian US:
Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order
"New documents detail inner workings of Society for American Civic Renewal, group with an emphasis on Christian nationalism."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/far-right-fraternal-order-sacr
I assume by "Red Caesar" they mean someone stabbed by 23 of his closest friends.
As I understand it, #Project2025 is preparing to take power as soon as the election is 'won'.
Laying out their plan for the first 150 days, and getting all their ducks in a row to have a seamless move into the #RedCaesar thing.
Who plays Caesar (or Cyrus, depending on whether you're a #ChristianNationalist or just a plain ol' #Fascist) is less important than you suspect
If #TFG ends up in jail, they're already saying it's a witchhunt. Like I sd, hope I'm wrong
"the pseudo-intellectuals of right-wing think tanks... would argue, that the nation needs a Red Caesar who will... impose order.
...let me translate. The alleged brain trust of an increasingly fascist #MAGA movement wants an American #dictatorship that would “suspend” #democracy in January 2025 — just 15 months from now."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html
#Thread of #RedCaesar articles:
https://newsie.social/deck/@ZhiZhu/111187303882322470
#Trump #Republicans #GOP #authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #USA #News
@QasimRashid I think all GOP actions are pointing to an attempt to install Trump as #RedCaesar https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/red-caesar-authoritarianism-republicans-extreme-right
"Increasingly, #Republican politicians and elite thinkers are calling for a #RedCaesar — a strongman #dictator who can take control of America and whip us into shape — to replace our elected office of president.
In order to do this they would first have to "terminate" our #Constitution and create a "post-constitutional" new political order, as #Trump proposed doing toward the end of his single presidential term."
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/09/the-rights-red-caesar-plan-a-new-order-keeps-marching-forward/
"the pseudo-intellectuals of right-wing think tanks... would argue, that the nation needs a Red Caesar who will... impose order.
...let me translate. The alleged brain trust of an increasingly fascist #MAGA movement wants an American #dictatorship that would “suspend” #democracy in January 2025 — just 15 months from now."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html
#Thread of #RedCaesar articles:
https://newsie.social/deck/@ZhiZhu/111187303882322470
#Trump #Republicans #GOP #authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #USA #News
I appreciate Heather Cox Richardson's writing. She always has something intelligent and applicable to say.
I would agree with your statement that the MAGA crowd want Biden to lose, but I think Ms Richardson is more accurate when she says they want #democracy to lose.
The GOP, led by the MAGA cult, want to end American democracy and install a "strongman" dictatorship in the USA.
Have you read the #RedCaesar stuff? Here's a thread:
https://newsie.social/deck/@ZhiZhu/111187303882322470
“The fact that Trump lost in 2020 has just radicalized a lot of these people – it occurred to them that they might not win a proper election again,” Damon Linker said.
“That would mean that – excuse the language – they’re shit out of luck unless there’s some other path to power. That’s where Caesarism comes in.”
If Trump wins in 2024, does he listen to people like Michael Anton about the need to perhaps cancel the next election?
#redcaesar .
America needs to talk about the right’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship | “Thought leaders” of the far right talk openly about a 2025 dictatorship. People need to be alarmed.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html
#Inquirer #RedCaesar #Right #AmericanDictatorship #ThoughtLeaders #Alarm #Politics #News
“'Thought leaders' of the far right talk openly about a 2025 #dictatorship. People need to be alarmed."
— @willbunch
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html
h/t @heidilifeldman @lisamelton
#RedCaesar #democracy #US #politics
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