The Atlantic: The Trump Regime Is Beginning to Topple

[Swede]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/how-regime-change-happens/612739/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwAR3GtOjUusMFI2fkws8SIZeFJUNw2ACUrGSCd7-B2xwBZsDQzn8QJQi4aMo

[Hortensis]

1. Thanks. Looks like it offers a larger, contextual perspective,

which I can really use right now. Happily I haven't run through my "free" articles for this month yet.

(A subscription has been on my gift wish list so long it's probably hidden under years of virtual dust.)

[Swede]

3. I didn't tell you this, but...

Clear your cookies and it's reset.

[Hortensis]

4. Really? I'll try that for sure, but they seem to know me.

Incognito doesn't work. Maybe because I've had subscriptions in the past.

[Swede]

5. It works with all of them.

Tracking cookies lets them know who you are.

[Hortensis]

10. I also just pulled up Foer's article on Putin stealing this election,

"well on his way to," which I didn't get to read when it came out. Atlantic now says I still have 3 more articles, so I'll try that once I'm blocked.

I really do appreciate those subscription magazines that allow some free access each month now that we've joined the "fixed income" demo.

[crickets]

8. Cookie AutoDelete can help you manage them without having to think about it every time.

There's a version for Chrome and Firefox.

eta - Also FYI, the links you use and save help track you a bit too, with the information tacked on the end. Everything from the '?' onward can be deleted, leaving just the web address.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/how-regime-change-happens/612739/

None of this is necessary. 👇 It's just basic analytics info.
?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwAR3GtOjUusMFI2fkws8SIZeFJUNw2ACUrGSCd7-B2xwBZsDQzn8QJQi4aMo

[Hortensis]

11. :) Just downloaded! Thanks, Crickets.

[crickets]

12. You're welcome! I love that little add-on. Enjoy! nt

[erronis]

21. I always make sure I clear the tracking info before I forward a link. However there are new trackers

that actually embed the tracking data (usually a multi-character string) in the actual URL. You can't delete that tracking string without breaking the URL - it won't be resolved. Cats and mouses.

However, I have gladly subscribed to The Atlantic since it has had the most in-depth articles on world and US politics. My NYT subscription will be canceled to make up for the new charge. After the NYT published senator cotton-mouth's piece it pushed me over the edge. Lots of good reporting but lots of favoritism.

[crickets]

28. "can't delete that tracking string without breaking the URL"

I've noticed some sites have started doing that. I don't think it's right, but I don't know what can be done about it. Online privacy laws that might cover this kind of thing, especially in the US, just never seem to be good enough.

[Hortensis]

30. NYT has been proven blatantly corrupt in helping elect Trump,

other Repubs, defeat Democrats. Their Halloween 2016 article -- days before the election -- effectively declaring the FBI had found nothing to Trump-Russia and implying it was wrapping up is merely the most notorious incident in a very sordid, betraying history.

I cancelled and since then it's been a series of cancellings in disgust and, as big doings heat up, accepting super-discount offers. Now we're on the final run to the election, and I hope to cancel for good once our new president is sworn in. Dean Baquet's continuing as executive editor all by itself shows the goal is still to keep Repubs in power, no matter what they're doing to our nation.

[tinrobot]

27. Use Firefox containers

Each container has a separate set of cookies.

When you run out of articles on the first container, just open in the next container to restart the count.

[Hortensis]

29. My son will tell me how, thanks. I know Firefox is here somewhere. :)

[safeinOhio]

2. Great post.

Thank you for it.

[Maeve]

6. Four paragraphs for those without access

Twitter’s decision to label Trump’s posts as misleading was a hinge moment. For years, the company had provided the president with a platform for propaganda and a mechanism for cowing his enemies, a fact that long irked both critics outside Twitter and employees within. Only when Trump used Twitter to threaten violence against the protests did the company finally limit the ability of users to see or share a tweet.

Once Twitter applied its rules to Trump—and received accolades for its decision—it inadvertently set a precedent. The company had stood strong against the bully, and showed that there was little price to pay for the choice. A large swath of S&P 500 companies soon calculated that it was better to stand in solidarity with the protests, rather than wait for their employees to angrily pressure them to act.

A cycle of noncooperation was set in motion. Local governments were the next layer of the elite to buck Trump’s commands. After the president insisted that governors “dominate” the streets on his behalf, they roundly refused to escalate their response. Indeed, New York and Virginia rebuffed a federal request to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.* Even the suburb of Arlington, Virginia, pulled its police that had been loaned to control the crowd in Lafayette Square.

As each group of elites refused Trump, it became harder for the next to comply in good conscience. In Sharp’s taxonomy, the autocrat’s grasp on power depends entirely on the allegiance of the armed forces. When the armed forces withhold cooperation, the dictator is finished. Of course, the U.S. is far more democratic than the regimes Sharp studied and doesn’t fit his taxonomy neatly. But on Wednesday, the president’s very own secretary of defense explicitly rejected Trump’s threat to deploy active-duty military officers to American streets. It’s among the most striking instances of an official bucking a president in recent decades.

[OutfWatr]

7. Trump regime begins to fall

As companies declare their support for BLM, we will hold them accountable. It is not supportive to be making any campaign contributions to the GOP. Rand Paul is holding up the lynching law. Moscow Mitch is holding up tons of legislation. It is not supportive to be buying ad time on FOX network. Bring down the entire Koch, RW, GOP machine and destroy white supremacists.

[BComplex]

14. Wow. I've got a dream.

Wouldn't that be awesome!

"Bring down the entire Koch, RW, GOP machine and destroy white supremacists. "

[erronis]

22. The Murdoch "empire" will crumble without hate and fear mongering as its platform.

mercers, devos/prince, thiel - all need to find shelter somewhere way off-shore. Hope they don't need to start cannibalism to stay alive.......

[BComplex]

25. From your keyboard to God's ears.

It's way past time.

[2naSalit]

19. +1

Welcome to DU!

[zentrum]

20. This Because....

….the companies, for the most part, don't mean it. It's window dressing for them.

[malaise]

9. Yep

The dam is breaking

[crickets]

13. Excellent article. Now if only more US oligarchs would quietly slink away from trump... nt

[BComplex]

15. Wouldn't it be awesome if such a rebellion was possible in China and Russia.

I'm afraid the russians like their government more than the people of most authoritarian regimes, however.

On edit: I'm afraid North Korea is too far gone.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. Another key paragraph

Sharp’s foundational insight is embedded in an aphorism: “Obedience is at the heart of political power.” A dictator doesn’t maintain power on his own; he relies on individuals and institutions to carry out his orders. A successful democratic revolution prods these enablers to stop obeying. It makes them ashamed of their complicity and fearful of the social and economic costs of continued collaboration.

Sharp posited that revolutionaries should focus first on the regime’s softest underbelly: the media, the business elites, and the police. The allegiance of individuals in the outer circle of power is thin and rooted in fear. By standing strong in the face of armed suppression, protesters can supply examples of courage that inspire functionaries to stop carrying out orders, or as Sharp put it, to “withhold cooperation.” Each instance of resistance provides the model for further resistance. As the isolation of the dictators grows—as the inner circles of power join the outer circle in withholding cooperation—the regime crumbles.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

17. Finally - Ive been saying all along the problem is the enablers not the despot himself. Theres

always been wanna be dictators, its the enablers that make it happen and its they who can make it stop.

I think it would help matters if we ourselves, the public, would stop being so fixated on Trump. Look at this forum - even here its all Trump, all the time. Yeah we need historians to record what his ten thousand stupid tweets a day are saying, but why does it need to be inflicted on the public?

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

18. Ive been meaning to subscribe to this and a couple other publications - do you actually get a

magazine in the mail? Id really love that!

[BamaRefugee]

23. PLEASE subscribe to at least SOME of the media that is on our side, they can't continue to inform us

FOR FREE.
We can't afford to lose them.

Pay for as many as you can afford, maybe others can take up the slack when they pay for outlets that you need to read but can't afford.

[Kali]

24. this

press needs support to do the work it is supposed to do

[crickets]

26. You're right. I do subscribe to WaPo and have been considering a couple of others

including the Atlantic. Their coverage of various issues has been consistently good.

[Blue Owl]

31. I wanna see a fucking flaming heap of wreckage

with a charred, disoriented Donny on top of the festering pile...