This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.

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@andrewstroehlein "Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve."

Boom.

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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that (the depraved are) the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."

@andrewstroehlein "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. 1/2

@andrewstroehlein ... Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about 'Western civilization,' while armed brutes try to tear it down by force." 2/2

@andrewstroehlein Really good read; thanks for sharing it!

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MAGA assumes "the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling.

This has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the admin, and, in MN, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life."