Dear Media, here is the clear truth:

Donald Trump is explicitly seeking to turn America into a white Ethnostate.

He is following an openly racist plan, crafted by open racists.

If you report this story any other way you are not reporting the facts or being objective.

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If you think this is an extreme position or an opinion, you haven't read enough about the white nationalist movement, Stephen Miller, Bannon, Sessions, etc.

Eliminating birthright citizenship is a central plank in a well-articulated, coherent movement to make America whiter.
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Blaming Soros is a central tool. It is part of a (crazy, wrong, but internally coherent) theory of the case:
- By nature, people can only form society with their closer kin.
- Yadda Yadda (the arguments are terrible) White people have certain values that non-whites don't.

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(continuing the white power explanation)

- All whites, by nature, would know they only want a white society.

- An outside group--hint, it's the Jews!--is tricking them into going against their nature (white nationalists think they know a lot about core human nature).

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(continuing views I hate to explain them)

- There is an existential race to save America. By 2046, it will become majority minority and then (in this fevered nonsensical view) there will be a civil war because unlike people can't form stable societies.

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(more stuff I despise, so others understand)

- The solution (in their minds) is twofold:

1. Slow down minority growth through expulsion, denial of citizenship, closing borders to non-whites.

2. Awakening/uniting white identity by scaring them about brown people.

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The white nationalists have an open debate about the Jewish Question (they just call it "JQ"), which boils down to some think Jews are white and others think Jews are the cause of the de-whitification of America.

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Every reporter covering Trump should know this argument, its vocabulary and key points.

You will no longer have any questions about what Trump is up to. You will no longer be able to cover this story as a case of two sides with extremists, or as a tentative debate.

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You will be able to cover Trump properly, objectively, truthfully. You will not see him as a nutjob who spouts off like Archie Bunker.

He is a grifter con man who wants to make money and hide his ill-gotten gains and is also deeply racist.

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He has learned--as so many awful leaders have before--that your corruption will go unchecked if you embrace the ugliest form of nationalism.

He found a coherent movement with a thickly drawn ideology and game plan, hired their proponents and applied their language.

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Journalists covering Trump: Please, please, please, for the sake of the country, go read, go study.

Understand:
- JQ
- 2046
- why (wrongly) WP folks think evolutionary kinship preferences can only be racial in the modern age.

It's ugly work, but it's your job.
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One last thing: hey @andrewmarantz can you draw up some kind of reading list, podcast listening list for people to learn that world?

I hate to promote such things but people gotta learn what's out there.

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Good afternoon, followers of frivolous election litigation. There's a last-minute entry in the competition for dumbest pre-inauguration lawsuit - a totally loony effort to apparently leave the entire USA without a government.

We'll start with the complaint in a minute.

But first, I want to give you a quick explanation for why I'm going to keep talking about these cases even after the inauguration.

They're part of an ongoing effort - one that's not well-coordinated but is widespread - to discredit our fundamental system of government.

It's a direct descendent, in more ways than one, of birtherism. And here's the thing about birtherism. It might have been a joke to a lot of people, but it was extremely pernicious. It obviously validated the racist "not good enough to be President" crowd. But that wasn't all.

Don't get me wrong, that was bad enough. Validating racism helped put the kind of shitbird who would tweet this from an official government account into power. But it didn't stop


(Also, if you agree with Pompeo about multiculturalism - the legendary melting pot - not being what this country is all about, you need to stop following me now. And maybe go somewhere and think about your life choices and what made you such a tool.)

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