#BrandNBCUniversalChuckTodd, #BrandNBCUniversalMarkMurray, #BrandNBCUniversalBenKamisar, #BrandNBCUniversalBridgetBowman and #BrandNBCUniversalAlexandraMarquez #2020_CapitolSiege
Just 45 percent of Americans say Donald Trump is 'solely' or 'mainly' responsible for the rioters who overtook the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, versus a combined 55 percent who say the former president is only somewhat responsible or not really responsible, according to results from the latest NBC News poll.
That's a shift from the Jan. 2021 NBC poll -- taken days after the attack -- when 52 percent said Trump was either solely or mainly responsible, compared with 47 percent who disagreed." https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/fewer-americans-now-say-trump-responsible-jan-6-nbc-news-poll-finds-rcna32074
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
Context: #OrgUSHouseSelectCommitteeOnTheJanuary6Attack https://january6th.house.gov/
Supplementary: #IRLFilmmakerSandiBachom #2022_TrueBelieversAtTheInsurrection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQR_H81xFIU https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25503240/ #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSProudBoys #PleaMAGA #2017_UniteTheRightRally #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaCharlottesville #IRLHistoricalFigureRobertELee #IRLConspiracistDavidDuke #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSProudBoysGavinMcInnes #PleaStandBackAndStandBy #CatchcryAmericaFirst #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNewYorkNYCManhattanMetropolitanRepublicanClub #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesShaneGoldmacher https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/nyregion/gavin-mcinnes-republican-club-vandalized.html #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionStopTheSteal i.e. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/13/business/stop-the-steal-disinformation-campaign-invs/ #IRLPoliticalLobbyistRogerStone #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMikePence #IRLFinancierGeorgeSoros #BeliefDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #WebsiteInfoWarsAlexJones #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSOathKeepers #SymbolEmblemFlagUSGadsdenRattlesnakeDontTreadOnMe #OrgUSFedWhiteHouseTheEllipse i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellipse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7XqdeviKLg https://throughconversations.com/ #IRLScholarNoamChomsky #TauntCultureCancel #IRLConspiracistDavidDuke #CampaignStrategySouthernStrategy i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Context: #MagazineHarpersBazaar "Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion--which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.
This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won't defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn't expect the public or the state to defend it for us" (7 July #2020_). https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Supplementary: #EDUUSUniversityOfCaliforniaUCLABerkeleyJohnPowell "These strategies, combined called the 'Southern Strategy', was designed to create a national Republican majority, built, in part, on white resentment.
The dog whistle worked because it was heard and understood by the conservative white base, yet not by more moderate and northern whites. It meant activating racial resentment for one part of the population while denying that fact to the rest. The Southern Strategy married the conservative politics antipathy to marginal tax rates and civil rights, labor, and environmental regulations of corporate elites with culturally conservative antipathy towards civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights." https://belonging.berkeley.edu/new-southern-strategy #IRLCommentatorKevinPhillips and #EventRepublicanNationalConventionRNC Chairman #IRLHistoricalFigureLeeAtwater #MetaphorDogWhistle
#IRLUltracrepidarianDaveRubin
#AdvocacyUSProjectReasonSamHarris
#AdvocacyUSHooverInstitutionAyaanHirsiAli
#IRLEconomistThomasSowell
#MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray
#PoliticsFascismNazi
#PoliticsFascismNaziPartyJosephGoebbels
#IRLEngineerSoftwareJamesDamore
#IRLScholarPeterBoghossian
#WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay
#IRLAuthorHelenPluckrose
#IRLConspiracistDavidDuke
#IRLScholarGadSaad
#IRLScholarJordanPeterson
#IRLUltracrepidarianCandaceOwens
#IRLAuthorJaniceFlamengo e.g. https://www.spectator.com.au/author/janice-fiamengo/
#MetaphorContinuumLinear
via the #WebsiteWokeTemple