It went from 0 to 60 really fast
Jan. 20th, 2025 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mprotsenkoMusk throwing a Sieg Hail salute during inauguration ceremony wasn't on my bingo card...
UPD: I couldn't help but commit a sin of "subtweeting": folks who didn't get the idea of a dog whistle - do you get it now? Or is it still not entirely clear and may be open to interpretation? (Though this is not so much of a dog whistle - it is closer to a steamboat horn...)
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Date: 2025-01-21 10:46 am (UTC)"Trump — I watched him up close for 2½ years when I was inside of the previous administration. So I’m going to basically say what I saw with my own eyes and what I heard with my own ears. I’ve spent the last 25 years watching Vladimir Putin, who I’ve met in person. I’ve seen Musk in person as well. I’ve seen a lot of these people up close, and I’ve had plenty of time to observe them and to think about the way that they act. First of all, for Trump, he doesn’t think of people as individuals. He’s pretty much focused on himself. And that’s come out, over and over again. I think it’s 100 percent clear by now.
Some people want to see Trump as a champion, a kind of an avatar, who’s out there doing battle for them against all kinds of opponents, or getting them various things. But Trump doesn’t think of anybody else as individuals. He thinks of people in categories. I heard him talk about steel workers, coal miners or auto workers. Or he talks about people as evangelicals, or Jews, or as Blacks or as Hispanics. He puts people into categories. Vladimir Putin and other autocrats do that as well. In political systems in which you have a strong person at the top, everybody else is just a category. You’re not an individual. You have no individual rights."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/28/fiona-hill-explains-trump-musk-putin-00185820