Here's Nils Gilman, no longer in X/Twitter, but responding elsewhere to a copy of the tweet below. Nils, a sober voice and COO & EVP @berggruenInst, has an uncannily prescient track record anticipating the precise shape, character and direction of resurgent authoritarianism.
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Copy of post here: Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social In fact working on a piece on exactly this question. The list is long. February 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
@foxnewspolitics The dark invocation of no-delay, no-nonsense excoriation and elimination? That would be ethno-nationalism's central, existential premise, promise and priority. So, just how many ethnic-cleansing projects might the current, global authoritarian surge manufacture consent for?
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Copy of tweet here: Where India, or nice, White, Christian America for that matter, may yet make Gaza seem a teddy bear's picnic by comparison. What then, when a global politico-media complex fuses across state borders to significantly "other" a culture or race? Where is the archetypal trend headed? Such platitudes, a psychotic derivative of nationalist exceptionalism, aren't they? A Balkanization of psychogeography, delineated by the basic delusion that morality and reality, interdependence and consequence, somehow disassociate at dividing lines drawn on a map of the world. Our prophets universally depict this momentous revelation of the monstrous, wholesale moral destitution of our primary, international 'superpowers', as the rending of a well-wrought veil of deceit, a historical bifurcation point defining a providential, planetary dividing line.