ANGUS: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk and the Fall of America

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ANGUS: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk and the Fall of America

Charlie Anngus - The Resistance - September 19, 2025

EXCERPT: "How easily they crumbled. The universities. The courts. The independent government agencies. And the media. Sorting out the ones that were complicit in the right-wing takeover of the nation and those who were simply intimidated will be the work of historians. . . . .

But now back to Jimmy Kimmel.

His firing is an absolute provocation. It is a test. So far, America is failing the test. If a man like Kimmel can be taken down, anyone can. That is the point. Trump and MAGA have always gone after the big prizes – the universities, the Smithsonian, 60 Minutes. If they can be forced to bend, then there are no longer any guardrails holding back authoritarianism.

Where we go from here isn't clear. The fascist playbook, however, gives us a pretty good idea. This means that resistance to the intimidation and the martyr cult is more important than ever. As Indira Gandhi warned, "martyrdom does not end something, it is only a beginning.""

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