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Selected bits of a Twitter thread, 2017-12-22 to 2017-12-23

Little Light (burnlittlelight): "People shocked about the split-second shift to authoritarian rule as though we weren't warning all of you, years ago, as each component of it was slowly assembled. You called us crazy for seeing the shape of it. Now it's 'sudden.'"

Winter Tashlin (wintersong): "The same people who rushed to yell 'Godwin's Law!' every time we tried to talk about this shit are now the ones saying 'how did this all happen so fast'"

dreamingnoctis (jbarkerdesigns): "Oh god yes. Ive been trying to tell people about the authoritarian rot in the GOP since at least 2003-2004."

Wildcat in Tempe (ILoveUTigerLily): "The best is when they blame us for it. 'I only became a white nationalist because you kept calling me one!'"

Jane Munroe (janewordsmith): "We could see it pretty clearly from Canada. I have to tell you, it's upsetting to watch from up north."

GraveyDice (GraveyDice): "Personally I think it started with the rise of Friedmanesque neoliberalism in the 1970s. And it is a very long term deliberate plan."

MOMO (Momo_Tracker): "The bigger problem is that people are desensitized from the constant attack on our institutions, thereby greenlighting authoritarian rule as a new state of normality."