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A.R. Moxon (he/him) is author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES and the upcoming essay book VERY FINE PEOPLE.

His newsletter is The Reframe: www.the-reframe.com
He can climb trees, but chooses not to, recognizing that trees do not attempt to climb him.

This is where he toots.

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A lot of people who spent the last 10 years telling us that respect for the flag was the most important thing in the world suddenly don’t want us to care about who flies what flags how, I notice.

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(Excerpted from VERY FINE PEOPLE, 1st published October 2020)

We now know that—even though Trump is a disruption to the status quo in some ways—he isn’t only a disruption to the status quo. In many ways, he is a part of that status quo’s inevitable progression.

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He’s the result you can expect to see, in a society which believes that we have no shared society, that life must be earned, that profit is how you earn it, and that violence redeems.

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We can see that Trump isn’t a disruption to business as usual, but rather a purified concentrate of that business. Even though he spread supremacy's virus, Trump isn’t a virus. He’s the first unignorable tumor—for those of us comfortable enough to have ignored previous symptoms.

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Yes, he’ll have to be removed completely, but afterward things are going to have to be different. If they aren’t, then we’ll find ourselves here again.

And we may well find ourselves here again.

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Even many opposed to the spiritual virus of MAGA aren’t interested in quarantining or vaccinating against it. Some remain opposed to radical transformations to our lifestyle. Some want only to remove the tumor of Trump, then return to the exact situation that allowed it to grow.

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We’ve heard all the justifications for this, because we know them. We often are them. These complacent masses aren’t strangers, any more than the cheering red-capped throngs are strangers.

Often, they’re us.

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Happy, smiling, friendly, many of them. They love their kids. They go to church. They work hard. They pay their taxes. They walk their dogs. They love us, some of them. Yes, and we love them, many of them.

And if we seem so angry, perhaps the reason is that the anger we feel toward these friends and family and neighbors, while appropriate and honest, is easier than the deep sorrow and mourning, that those we love would so eagerly or complacently align with the pursuit of atrocity.

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I see two questions we have to face, in the teeth of this new knowledge. These questions sound simple, but aren’t. They will be the same questions after the election as before, no matter the result—and so will the answers.

I’ll get to the second question eventually.

The first question is about awakening, conviction, and confession.

It’s this: How did we get here?

I’ll tell you how I think we got here.

I think we drove, on streets we built.

Full essay: https://www.the-reframe.com/very-fine-people-copy/

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Hey all: if you like my writing on here or elsewhere I've got a book of essays coming out in about 5 weeks and if you pre-ordered it that would be a very nice thing of you to do.

Signed copies can be preordered now. Link for details.

https://www.the-reframe.com/vfp-e-book-now-available/

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I wrote about Harrison Butker, Sam Alito, the cult of fascists that intend to control our bodies and lives, and why we need to start treating people who have demolished all good faith as if they have demolished all good faith.

The case for lying to fascists:

https://www.the-reframe.com/lying-to-fascists/

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