Well, I guess the Reaganite wing of the Dem Party isn't going to stop declaring the best way to beat the fascists is to buck up and become more like them anytime soon, so this is a whole thing now; collaborators never sleep.

Elissa Slotkin, who is basically what would would happen if the DCU's Amanda Waller took a mid-career detour to successfully run for a US Senate seat in Michigan, has been furiously working in the lab on a "brand new" way to fight Trump and the fascist GOP. Can you guess what this ex-CIA murderbot brain genius came up with? If you guessed "sacrifice marginalized people to the fascists and become more like the nazis" you can get in line to claim your gold star.

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Slotkin is testing a ‘war plan’ to beat Trump. She wants Dems to ditch wokeness and muscle up

"Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, will on Thursday start road-testing what she calls a “war plan” to “contain and defeat Donald Trump.”

In the first of a series of speeches about the Democratic Party’s path out of the wilderness, the Michigan senator said she will span everything from strategy to tactics and tone, acknowledging public perception of the party as “weak and woke” needs to change. She is urging Democrats to “fucking retake the flag” with appeals to voters’ sense of patriotism, to adopt “the goddamn Alpha energy” of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an “airing out” of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary."

As an astute observer replied to another post I made about Slotkin's plan: "anyone who says "wokeness" unironically is accepting the nazis' terms & conditions." The beauty of the fascist right's openly broadcast plan to redefine "woke" as a brand wholly separate from its traditional meaning in African American communities, is that now that "wokeness" has made its way into nazi propaganda, it means entirely different things to different demographics or groups of people. Needless to say however, a Democrat US Senator supposedly working in opposition to to the fascist Trump regime should not be talking about "ditching wokeness" at the precise time the ruling fascist party is defining caring about: constitutional rights, ICE kidnapping and attempting to deport political prisoners, and the right for trans people to exist, as "woke" - unless she *means* to imply the Democratic Party should shift rightward to mirror objectively fascist policies being enacted by that regime.

And hey, maybe that's what she does mean; Slotkin is after all a self-described Zionist who expressed support for Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza even as the ICJ was ruling they were conducting a plausible genocide of Palestinians there - so it's not like she's worried about getting a little blood on her hands. Slotkin also joined a festering cluster of Reaganite triangulators in the Democratic Party who'd like party members to stop using the word "oligarchy" because, and this is rich given the crowds folks like AOC and Bernie Sanders are attracting on their anti-oligarch speaking tour, Americans "don't know what it means."

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Slotkin Panned Online After Claiming That Voters Don't Know What 'Oligarchy' Means

"But even as evidence mounts that Americans understand that the political system has been captured by corporations and the wealthiest people—and are living their day-to-day lives with the results, including higher healthcare costs and disinvestment in public services—Slotkin told Politico on Thursday that Democrats should "stop using the term 'oligarchy,' a phrase she said doesn't resonate beyond coastal institutions."

So you got that kids? The way to beat fascism at the ballot box in elections that might literally be rigged for the nazis, is to stop fighting for the survival of marginalized people and never speak ill of the rich people that are turning your life into a dystopian sci-fi novel about emerging techno-fascism on a boiling planet.

The truth is however that there's nothing special about Slotkin, Newsom, and Emanuel; in my now forty-eight years on this Earth this is exactly how monied people in the Democratic Party have reacted to every political tremor in modern US history. When your purpose is to get paid for serving the needs of wealthy ruling class donors, your solution to every problem is always going to be shift rightward and protect rich people; they don't care at all that Trump is a fascist, just that their donor class maintains control of both major political parties in America. Which is probably why folks who think like them, have managed to lose not one but two separate elections to a reality TV show nazi oligarch whose catchphrase is literally "you're fired."

Like Newsome before her, Slotkin is peddling collaboration with a fascist as a realpolitik resistance; and she deserves the same response he got. Politely madam Senator? Go fuck yourself.

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