"The next election is about many things: abortion rights, civil rights, the fate of the planet, and more. But it’s really about one thing: Whether one man can corrupt and destroy a 250-year-old democracy. That we’re this unsure of the answer is terrifying."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809

https://mailchi.mp/tnr/tr0nxklx3j-169079?e=3b92356f5b

"He took a low point in American history and turned it into an iconic triumph because he understands media and is biologically incapable of feeling shame.

Those powers make him a host unto himself and this mugshot is a warning to all of us.

We underestimate Trump at our peril."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809 #mugshot #belligerence

https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/mugged-by-demagoguery

"Mugshots define eras….

The picture does not flatter but it does convey the message many of Trump’s supporters want to hear – belligerence."

~ Chris McGreal

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809 #mugshot #belligerence

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/24/belligerence-and-hostility-trumps-mugshot-defines-modern-us-politics

Joyce Vance offers a screenshot of records for inmates housed in the Fulton County, Georgia, jail yesterday evening, including InmateP01135809.

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-gets-a-mug-shot

"By making this gargoyle of hate the 'face' of the 2024 GOP campaign, Republicans are reinforcing the suspicions and fears of tens of millions of Republicans and swing voters who are looking for a reason not to vote for Trump—or to stay home. (As they did on debate night by boycotting his Tucker Carlson interview.)"

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809
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"Tens of millions of MAGA adherents will celebrate and glorify the image—confirming the virulent strain of authoritarianism that has infected the MAGA base.

The mugshot will become the equivalent of a 'gang sign' for MAGA extremists to identify fellow travelers in hate."

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809
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"Tens of millions of MAGA adherents will celebrate and glorify the image—confirming the virulent strain of authoritarianism that has infected the MAGA base.

The mugshot will become the equivalent of a 'gang sign' for MAGA extremists to identify fellow travelers in hate."

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809
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"The photo is also a mugshot of MAGA extremism. It captures the hostility and meanness that animates most of the GOP’s 'agenda'—including policies that demean and discriminate against Blacks, women, LGBTQ people, educators, scientists, and immigrants. Trump's mugshot will likewise become the defining image of MAGA extremism for all time."

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809
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"Trump's mugshot will become the defining image of Trump for all time. His facial expression conveys equal parts menace, anger, and defiance. There is no hint of a soul behind the eyes, only animal grievance and feral resentment at being cornered."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-maga-mugshot

"And that's when somebody like Trump comes on the scene and scans the political marketplace and says, 'Oh, here's a constituency, white working-class voters, malcontents, and so he brilliantly swooped in and said, 'You are the forgotten. I love you and I'm going to save you.'"

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #strongman #InmateP01135809
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In America's multi-racial democracy, the election of Obama followed by a female candidate for president sparked huge backlash: people began to say that everything that was happening was a wrong direction for the nation — with white men as the drivers of the discontent and rage.

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #strongman #InmateP01135809
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat discussed with Aaron Rupar "the general set of conditions that lead a population to embrace somebody like a Trump": she says that when men — white ones in the Euro-American context — feel their status and privilege threatened, strongmen wannabes like Trump come on the scene to exploit the anxiety rapid social change elicits.

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #strongman #InmateP01135809
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kn9J1pBywo&t=1s

"It’s a presidential portrait that’s sure to go down in history. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia publicly released a mug shot of former president Donald Trump, inmate no. P01135809, after he was booked at the facility Thursday evening on 13 felony counts stemming from his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state."

~ Kate Murphy

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy #InmateP01135809

https://www.yahoo.com/news/here-is-trumps-mugshot-004911938.html

"For the first time in U.S. history, there is a mugshot of a former president. …

It is quite a thing to see leading Republicans—including a former president—in mugshots for their assault on our democracy and to know that party leadership supports their actions."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty #democracy

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-2023

"It’s President of the United States, and the crew on that stage last night couldn’t get elected president of a junior college student council, much less the highest office in the land. Shame on you, Republican Party. You can do better."

#Republicans #debate #ClownCar #CrimeParty
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"It’s really astounding that one of our two major political parties is unable to field even a single candidate who looks, sounds, and acts like he or she could actually do the work of the job they’re running for. It’s not Occupant of the Oval Office, after all."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Republicans #debate #ClownCar #CrimeParty
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/being-and-nothingness

"When one of America’s two major political parties has become a cult of personality, its leading contender for the presidency an authoritarian-wannabe under four criminal indictments, its base a blood-thirsty mob rising to the promise of incipient political violence, it surpasses understanding how the hackneyed tools of campaign debate coverage have any bearing or utility (to the extent they ever did)."

~ David Kurtz

#Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #CrimeParty

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/gop-presidential-debate-surreal-spectacle

Charlie Sykes on "the most pathetic moment" last night:

“Six of the eight debaters on Wednesday raised their hands when asked whether they would support Trump as the nominee even if he had been convicted of a crime - North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, DeSantis, Haley, Pence, Ramaswamy and U.S. Senator Tim Scott.”

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty

https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/the-vivek-and-nikki-show

"It was an embarrassing night for the Republican Party, and a worrisome one for American democracy."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/wtl-special-edition-live-substacking

"In essence, they pledged to be part of Trump's ongoing, slow-rolling attempted coup, the final stages of which include pardoning the coup plotters. That singular moment marks the Republican Party’s nadir, its everlasting moment of shame and humiliation."

No two ways about it: the party of "law and order" and "morality" and "virtue" has now rebranded itself as the Crime Party — the Mafia Party, even. The mask is off.

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #CrimeParty