Trump is a 71-year-old malignant narcissist with intense authoritarian tendencies surrounded by a legion of sycophants. I strongly doubt that he’s planning on leaving office in his lifetime. And I’m not sure he’s even capable of entertaining the notion of this leading to negative consequences for his family and legacy…

Social shunning can be effective. If adopting a fascist ideology results in a person being unable to frequent any nice restaurants or entertainment and shopping venues, then maybe people will think twice about adopting fascism.

Very well said, and pretty much what I was working toward but much more eloquently and directly stated.

She actually cited that incident as reasoning for her carrying a rifle to her graduation.

Yeah, except I’m not advocating the use of torture to extract information, so ... ?

Beating them with ideas is nigh impossible because, again, they don’t engage in good faith, if at all. Social shunning of fascists should become common practice.

Tomi has openly supported politicians that advocate for anti-homosexual policies, ideals and societal mores.

Ignoring fascists doesn’t make them go away, it allows them to fester and enables them to gain power.

“No one would argue that a person’s integrity isn’t of paramount importance, I said.”

Posting an article about the president of the United States tweeting admiration to a particular propagandist by name does not equal “going batshit crazy at every little thing this nobody says.” You’re posting this argument under the wrong article.

I wish more Americans understood that our modern propagandists are operating nearly identically to Nazi propagandists 80+ years ago, only with much more sophisticated and wide-reaching tools.

Ignoring fascists and crooks doesn’t make them go away. Decent people ignoring this crap only allows it to fester and grow.

Except Tomi won’t discuss politics with anybody in good faith. Throwing water at her is likely more productive than attempting to engage her.

Tomi Lahren and her ilk openly advocate to institutionalized physical, economic and emotional violence toward people they don’t like — minorities, liberals, immigrants, homosexuals, women, etc.

I think she’d simply dodge or refuse to answer those questions, same as she does most others.

They are doing everything they can to make it a political matter, though. And it might work — if Dems don’t retake Congress in November, then it’s extremely unlikely that Trump gets impeached for virtually anything that gets revealed.

Not to mention the video from a couple years ago of him accusing a total stranger of “looking like an ugly fucking foreigner.”

It’s not just you. They have abandoned any sense of responsibility to their readers and their lofty place in the media ecosystem in favor of transcription journalism and DC mean girl rumor-mongering.

We are way too far into the game for the NYT to be falling prey to this transparent blunt force media strategy. At this point we pretty much have to assume that Haberman and her editor are complicit.

This is a great point. Even if we accept his diagnosis of a problem — unattractive men become murderous because they can’t have consensual sex — it’s strange that the only solution he can come up with is “Women gotta give it up.” Do the incels not have bootstraps or something?