They continued to murder the English language… and anyone who got in their way

When the war on American democracy meets the war on grammar:

A perfect marriage of form and substance pic.twitter.com/Smyx7QnytE— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) February 20, 2023

There’s almost nothing new about MAGA ideology, and fundamentally this is just “rule or ruin” for the 21st century:

“National divorce” isn’t a real position. You don’t need to think through how it’d actually work. They don’t know either.
What people who say it actually mean is that they deserve to be in charge, and if they’re not—eg because they lost elections—they’re entitled to get violent.— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) February 20, 2023

Threatening civil war because a president elected with a strong popular vote majority reuses to implement your extremely unpopular policy of simply abandoning a liberal democracy to an unprovoked invasion by a bloodthirsty authoritarian imperialist invader represents multiple strands of the Southern reactionary tradition. And this movement has always depended on doughfaces like Trump, who has moved to a more geographically appropriate location in any case.