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struggle4progress

(118,359 posts)
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 10:01 PM Jan 2021

Nothing left but a persecution complex

Jake Bittle
January 29, 2021

On January 11, just a few days after the Capitol riot, Fox host Mark Levin opened his show by outlining a grand conspiracy involving the Democrats, the media, Black Lives Matter, football and basketball players, Twitter, and Facebook—powerful forces that had schemed to “exploit” the riot and silence conservatives “in the most fascistic ways imaginable” ...

... The Federalist argued that companies like Twitter and Facebook had “colluded” with “leftist journalists” to ban Donald Trump from their platforms. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board announced that “the progressive purge” had begun, and its contributors begged jurists to “save the Constitution from Big Tech” ...

... as the Republican Party ate itself alive, with .. McConnell blaming Trump for feeding his base lies, the various regiments of the conservative media continued to walk in lockstep on the issue of Big Tech censorship. This was a testament not only to the rise of free speech rhetoric on the right, but also to the power of victimhood as a bedrock principle of modern conservatism ...

This victim complex is so powerful that it exercises a veto over other components of conservative ideology. It has turned the right against the powerful corporations whose freedom they once defended, and led them to abandon their former “law and order” posturing in the wake of a violent riot ...

https://newrepublic.com/article/161110/gop-nothing-left-persecution-complex

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Nothing left but a persecution complex (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2021 OP
He didn't list the Jewish space lasers. Laelth Jan 2021 #1
Did someone say Jewish space lasers? roamer65 Jan 2021 #2
Perfect n/t Laelth Jan 2021 #3

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. He didn't list the Jewish space lasers.
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 10:04 PM
Jan 2021

He didn’t even mention the baby-eating pedophiles under the pizza parlor.

This person has no credibility.



-Laelth

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