The Inflection Zone / Mark Green
Six years ago, I wrote Trump wanted to be an American Fascist. Now that he's 10x worse, I'm launching "The Inflection Zone" to be a visual substack to track the power shifts between Trump's piracy and our democracy.
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TRUMP IS GIVING HYPOCRISY A BAD NAME (opens the original)
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Of course, saying-one-thing-while-doing-another has long been a sign of poor character. In film, it’s Elmer Gantry denouncing sin – in history, it’s Thomas Jefferson keeping Sally Hemings enslaved after fathering their children.But again, Donald J. Trump goes to extremes by taking what some people may occasionally yield todo to instead constantly do. It may not be the biggest arrow in his quiver of disinformation — e.g., big lies, frequent illegalities,
HOW LOW CAN HE GO? as #47 Falls to 29% (opens the original)
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Yes he’s very underwater in national polls, especially among critical Independents and Latinos… and has only been bleeding supporters in past months, not gaining any. Other than the Rasmussen “Poll”, the trend for Team Trump is down and downer.His vanity, violence and sheer vandalism have been in-plain-sight for years, interrupted by moments of sympathy after assassination attempts:He exc
CHANGING AMERICA: Podcast with Katrina vanden Heuvel on Media, Russia, Court, Ossoff (opens the original)
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:Mark Green : Mark Green here with our podcast version of The Inflection Zone, which we call Changing America, so our side starts developing the best new paradigms and programs to be ready after the next two national elections. I’m happy to be talking today with my longtime friend, Katrina vanden Heuvel, who has been a major influencer of political and popular opinion since before the term was invented.She’s owned and run </spa
DOES GOP WORRY MORE ABOUT REGULATION THAN EXTINCTION? (opens the original)
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The new explosive debate over whether and how the public sector should regulate A.I. is the ultimate example of MAGA’s dangerous extremism. Here we have a technology with an admitted non-zero risk of human extinction, yet Trump (who calls it “nothing but a hoax”) and Mike Johnson (who says AI firms “can self-regulate“ so “it’s not the job of Congress”) retreat to their predictable catechism against federal regulation. Chimes in J. D. Vance, “I felt it a little bit weird that so many frontier AI
WILL AUTOCRACY FAIL THIS FALL? Part II, A Message to Jeffries & Sulzberger. (opens the original)
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This post contains some offensive language.This is Mark Green from Trump’s distortion field we call The Inflection Zone.Let’s conclude our two part Substack on the biggest variables that could decide whether Democracy or Autocracy prevails by this November’s election.Will Donald Trump’s persistent “catch-me-if-you-can” approach finally wear down the Congress and Court? Here are the last two variables that could tilt the odds between possible outcomes for an Americanized Fascism</span
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