TaraElla

April in Canada, May in Australia, and now November in America: the right is losing ground quickly. It is the objective truth.

I think it has been definitively proven now that the West is certainly not turning right!

Why Trumpism is the Logical Endpoint of Movement Conservatism It was only a matter of time for organized conservatism to turn into radical reactionism

Why Trumpism is the Logical Endpoint of Movement Conservatism
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The internet and online culture encourage political extremism. We need to wake up to this ASAP.

Giving this a needed boost. Thanks.

Unpopular opinion: we are still in the COVID era, like it or not. The economic and political aftermath, which led to the return of Trump, is arguably the worst part of COVID. This means the COVID era will last until Jan 20 2029 at least. The 2020s should be remembered as the COVID decade, period.

Trump can't hide this

Trump plays the politics game harder than anyone else. Certainly doesn't sound like an anti-establishment outsider. MAGA should have woken up a long time ago.

Too many people just don't understand that liberal norms protect all parties. Guess they have to find out the painful way now.

Trump Was Never a Viable Path to End the Forever Wars The current moment simply vindicates what many of us were saying.

MAGA simply isn't that different from the Bush-Cheney Republicans who upheld the forever war, pre-emptive strike ideology. It's simply different packaging. The fact is, MAGA exists on top of a Republican establishment who still believes in all those things.
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Good observation.

I think we need a new term to describe what the Trump GOP is. Whatever it is doing right now surely isn't 'conservative'. It's radical. It's radical in a reactionary way.

Unbelievable

Donald Trump claimed he had all the cards...

Zelenskyy replied "SNAP".

& took the whole pile of cards off Trump...

Trump policy is simply ridiculous

Why We Need to Shut Down Political Aggression Aggression is basically bullying, and is simply incompatible with good order

Why We Need to Shut Down Political Aggression
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It looks like Trump's trade wars are going nowhere. This was what everyone who had common sense expected. You can't turn back the clock on free trade. In other words, 'it's the economy, stupid'.

At least in South Korea, abuse of emergency powers can lead to impeachment. This is real democracy.

Top White House adviser Stephen Miller says 'we're actively looking at' suspending due process for migrants The "privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended at a time of invasion. So I would say that's an action we're actively looking at," Miller told reporters outside the White House.

Trump and the populist right's use of 'emergency' as an excuse to dismantle safeguards must be called out and checked. It is becoming a pattern, frankly. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Newsom vs AOC in 28? Sounds interesting!

Vibe shift 2025, here we come...

The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again

Here's another article that takes the same view as my article re the significance of the Carney and Albanese victories. The zeitgeist is against Trump and the right now! www.salon.com/2025/05/05/t...

I think we'll see in November 2026 that they're probably smarter than many think.

The Week the Populist Right Decisively Lost Ground And what we can learn from it

A decisive rejection of what Trump represents in both Canada and Australia. Last week marked perhaps the first time the populist right decisively lost ground, since it first became a phenomenon in 2016. taraella.substack.com/p/the-week-t...

It seems we need to make our case in a different way than we have so far, to reach these people...

So many priorities to choose from... That's Trump 2.0 for you.

Say this out loud. Everyone.

MAGA is the most effective form of brainwashing ever.

Nobody ever wins with Trump. Only Trump wins under Trump.

Still doesn't change the fact that Trump is a coward with no principles. If he really believed in his stupid tariffs he would have forged ahead anyway. But this coward is clearly not confident about his own ideas.