This guy is the face of the rising generation of Republican Fascism.
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Others are going to downplay what they have said and done, arguing that these were “youthful errors.” 5/
We are going to need Spruckammer courts.
I would honestly go as far as holding hearings and censuring and shaming the likes of Garland and Biden for dereliction of duty.
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@Ulrich_the_elder @heidilifeldman sorry for my pessimism, I'm not very hopeful that we will survive the fascists this time around.
@villares @heidilifeldman Many of us will not survive. Ultimately though facism will fail as it always does.
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@heidilifeldman As a German, I would like to remind the method of Denazification, practised by the Allies after 1945: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
I could imagine that the USA need something similiar.
But please don't repeat the mistakes of history when the Americans and their allies too often whitewashed a whole bunch of former Nazis in leadership positions because it was so convenient, or because they preferred corruption and collaboration.@NatureMC @heidilifeldman I'm not German, but that was my first thought.
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It is hard to maintain an appetite for political reconstruction. People want to forget awful times and awful conduct and paper over problems and conflicts. But we can’t ever have secular, pluralist constitutional democracy in the U.S. if we don’t do the work of disqualifying those who have destroyed it from government. 6/6
@heidilifeldman Please do better job at political reconstruction than us over here in Germany. The common view of Germany being a role model for how to do this is misleading at best.
When West Germany was emerging in 1949, not enough Nazis were removed from all parts of government. There were numerous cases of Nazis in high ranks. Heck, even the BND, the federal intelligence agency, was founded by Hitlers „super spy“ Reinhard Gehlen and employed lots of former SS henchmen. -
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Here's the local paper reporting on him.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/03/27/who-is-kai-schwemmer-lds-byu/Unfortunately, they didn't mention that he's also #DezNat, but they linked to an explainer of that movement in a "related article" link at the bottom.
@katrinakatrinka @heidilifeldman
Funny how the Mormon Church has a trigger finger when it comes to kicking out gay members doing zero harm to anyone, but they're totally cool with Mormon neo Nazis shitting on many members of their own church.Masks off for all of them, I guess.
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@CStamp @heidilifeldman Well, they can keep doing what they’re doing, but since they can’t govern effectively and have no interest in governance, eventually their beliefs and ideas will become marginalized. I’m just saying, let them experience authoritarian oligarchy, à la Russia, for instance, and let them find out how much they like it.
@SharonCrockett @CStamp @heidilifeldman
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One of JB Pritzker's key talking points is the need for prosecution of those in this administration who have broken the law.
Illinois Democratic Governor Proposes 'Project 2029' to Target Trump Officials With Prosecutions for Breaking Laws
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has outlined Project 2029, calling for Democrats to pursue legal action against Trump officials and law‑enforcement agents accused of breaking the law.
International Business Times UK (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
@mastodonmigration @heidilifeldman
It'll be a fun distraction from nothing being done to strengthen democratic safeguards or remove the poisonous influence of corporations and/or money in politics. Until the next time fascists take over, anyhow. -
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Here's the local paper reporting on him.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/03/27/who-is-kai-schwemmer-lds-byu/Unfortunately, they didn't mention that he's also #DezNat, but they linked to an explainer of that movement in a "related article" link at the bottom.
@katrinakatrinka @heidilifeldman
This was interesting, it's like it's actually paying attention to my DNT header.
