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This is less about his awareness than it is a last twist of the knife on the back of those that saw clearer than him.

Holocaust survivors, their families, loved ones, friends, & caregivers as died have been calling the Fascism alarm since the Tea Party started to take over the GOP in 2009 as a response to Obama being president. Not agreeing w/ the alarms then caused this failure in our gov't and media now.

Oh you are just figuring it out?!?

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Honestly. They are so late to the party it’s moved to another house

Downplaying the danger, ignoring experts and denying facts until it totally escalates to then state the obvious 👏👏👏 bravo! Robert Paxton 2021: www.newsweek.com/robert-paxto... Jason Stanley 2024: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... Timothy Snider 2024: www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you that you're overreacting.

Now now, in 2019 Trump was just a young, immature child. There was no way of truly knowing what kind of man he'd grow up to be.

Congratulations to Jonathan on reaching the same conclusion most of reached years ago. Perhaps go back to hiring writers who haven't had lobotomies.

Alex Pretti is a GODDAMN AMERICAN HERO!!! Nobody can say otherwise!

About. Fucking. Time.

Rauch is a slow learner. We've been calling it Fascism, this side of The Atlantic, when Herr Trump was training on his first term.

Imagine being such a dumb baby that it took you until 202fucking6 to decide that Trump is a fascist. If I were that dumb, I’d write for The Atlantic.

Not recent but glad to have you

Subtitle: "Guess y'all were right all along. My bad"

Nothing has changed with Trump. The only thing that has changed is the gate keepers at The Atlantic have woken up.

Too little too late, shitheads

Oh boy Maybe we should just listen to the experts who were correct in a timely matter and not when it’s too late

If you have 20/800 vision with severe astigmatism, I suppose this is true.

little late in the day to grow some balls

Yeah that thing you spent a whole lot of time telling us we’re wrong about is actual real. Who would’ve thought.

Goofiest site out there. You missed the boat, folks. Cancelled my sub over a year ago now, doing fine without you. "Uhhh upon further inspection, it IS that bad! No, we will not be taking back our previous bad takes"

My eyes rolled so far back and around I got nauseous.

May as well be transparent about the fact that it took a single white man’s death for you to pull this 360.

So are you guys going to stop rearranging deck chairs finally? Pretty sure Rauch’s colleague who is active on this app continues to sneer and scoff at people here who have been pulling the alarm for the past year.

Welcome to the party pal

Trump’s America

hey Jonathan, you got your hot dog suit on?

Tom Nichols no doubt tendered his resignation today, after leading an online mob to laugh at the stupidity of The Atlantic.

It’s like Jonathan’s had a burning sensation in his penis and he’s just now realize he has Gonorrhea, and is infertile. You know there are warning signs that you shouldn’t ignore. Just like fascism.

But thanks for gaslighting everyone for years that what's happening isn't actually happening. F*** you.

Umm, no. bsky.app/profile/radi...

Not something I’d be proud of since it’s been obvious since 1/6 if not sooner

F#ck you, too, Herr Rauch - and The Atlantic for publishing this drivel.“Journalists” like you have enabled this horror.

Ok.

“Recent events” Uh huh… You helped cause this, Atlantic. Never forget that. We won’t.

Yup. The Atlantic exposed themselves and I’ll never read them again

Seriously, this is a big deal? We’ve known we’re in fascist movement for over a year!

Use the goddamn word: Fascism It's here. If you don't believe that after 2 state sanctioned as executions then you're an idiot.

BUT NOW. Maybe now is too late, my dear.

It's BEEN fascism for years you hack

"'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse."

I’ll take an apology for the 11 years of shit I’ve received for using this term since 2015.

You don't say!

With writers like this, I find it incredulous that anyone thinks the Atlantic is relevant but then again this is America... 🤷‍♂️

You realized this today. Just now. Good for you. Do you need help tying your shoes, sport?

Finally getting up to speed.

Somebody wake Jon Stewart and give him permission to say it, too

this is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done @theatlantic.com

Yet you give John Yoo a column. Are you stupid or can you not remember all the way back to the Bush administration?

The naive left were right in an annoying way (telling me I'm wrong, explaining how etc), whereas I, a wise centrist, was wrong in the right way, thus proving I was right to ignore them.

I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here on bsky, but if any of you want to read about how to identify fascism w/o slogging through whiny excuses; Umberto Eco has you covered: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

Two years too late. A good piece nonetheless. open.substack.com/pub/annheitl...

It’s sad that @theatlantic.com has supported Jonathan Rauch for what has taken him this long to figure out that Stupid Hitler is, underneath it all, still Hitler. At least he’s arrived, but by the time you’ve recognized it’s fascism, it’s too late.

Incredible to take over a decade to see the sky is blue but I'm not a well compensated opinion writer

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‘Recent events’.

Where have you been?

the most feckless egghead losers can’t admit they’ve been wrong even when it’s been plain as day for years

That's what we have been trying to tell you for years. How the hell did it take you this long to see what was obvious for years? Maybe we could have stopped this escalation if you were competent journalists.

About time.

It takes effort to be this fucking bad at your job. Congrats bro.

Oh, the respected, NSA-backed, presidential leopard is now looking at you? Boo-f*cking-hoo, you sad little quisling. 😑

Better late than never.

I still hate The Atlantic. 🖕🏼

Slapping themselves on the back for finally noticing that the Republicans have become fascists—the most important political issue of the past 50 years.

Atlantic, after drowning: yes, the water is wet.

He looks like the walking dead

About fucking time. Here's a cookie.

Oh, so NOW it’s fascism? Thanks for telling all of us … WHO ALREADY KNEW THAT.

We know. We've said it all along. Because it was blindingly obvious. Glad you've finally caught up.

The Atlantic always gives the impression it can't make up its mind between warning people about Hitler and providing an instruction manual for Hitler. It's also quite a lot of words to avoid mentioning genocidal transphobia - an impulse shared by the Trump regime and Atlantic.

Yeah, we’ve been trying to tell you this for years now

What defect in your personality would have you admit this? He was a fascist in twenty-fifteen. Good of you to recognize it now.

Oh, so now that a cis white man has been murdered, ya'll finally coming around to this conclusion? Gtfo.... you enabled this monster and refused to blame him for the problems he previously caused, and now that you're feeling unsafe, its a problem.....

We're going to remember the people who helped enable this. That includes every sycophantic excuse for a journalistic institution that enabled this.

DUH

We're 10 years in and this dunce is finally catching on? Hey @theatlantic.com are you actually paying for this dreck?

This.

Focus wasn't exactly unclear in 2016

Golly gee whiz, into sharper focus? Fascist? You don't say....🙄 Did you run this past Tom?

Congrats on emerging from your decade long coma!

As usual: the left's crime is being correct too early. Maybe this will instill some introspection into the minds of opinion writers at the Atlantic.

The uniforms may change but the evil does not.

An empty suit AND an empty head.

Somebody please alert Atlantic cat daddy @radiofreetom.bsky.social who is somewhere tut tutting his colleague and grumbling “it’s only fascism when you’re too afraid to post on Bluesky that it’s fascism”

It's a little wild to publish such a long article - framed as an apology - that boils down to proclaiming you've learned nothing. 1,000+ words to achieve, "sorry, not sorry."

How's recovery from that coma going?

dumb articles, years too late — that’s the Atlantic Promise

if only someone had pointed this out a full decade ago

"Recent" events?

How blind they are. These tendencies were apparent in his first term.

“I’ve been catastrophically wrong and I’m stepping down so someone else who’s been right can have this space.”

It has ALWAYS been perverse and people should have fucking listened to the actual targets of fascism in the first place. We can recognise it.

The fact that you *refused* to look until our blood was in the streets. *Refused* to listen to any voice but your own. *Refused* to consider what this was, what this has always been, when NOTHING these people have done was not telegraphed YEARS in advance. ...May you rot.

Fuuuuuuuuck you so hard you miserable cunts who slow walked every tweed jacketed twat to this point. Eat shit you effete fucks.

Not sure it counts until TCW validates it

Well, welcome to reality.

Now that the Feds executed a white male in broad daylight..

*The Atlantic shows up to the meeting 20 minutes late with Starbucks*

Slow clap - I just noticed that snow is cold myself.

Well, what do you want, Jonathan, a fucking medal?

So we were right all along and you are just now coming to the party? While you told us we were overreacting? Start with that, then I might care about your conversion.

Wasn't pardoning all the homegrown terrorists storming the White House a definite clue to what was coming?

Tom probably still disagrees w anyone calling tRump a fascist or saying America is fascist. Its why he blocked me. Good to see his own magazine decided to finally recognize what the lunatic in the White House (whats left of it) is.

Why exactly does the author spend the beginning of the article with slamming the dumb progressives? Even in a piece about how fascists are fascists they find a way to slam the people that have, as the author admits, literally been proven right. Childish behaviour honestly.

Duh 🙄 the detention camps and separation of children from parents during trump’s first republican administration was also fascist.