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People Like Me Instigated America’s War in 2015: A Former Liberal Speaks Out
spectator.org ^ | June 9, 2023 | Nate Terani

Posted on 06/10/2023 11:55:25 AM PDT by grundle

My heart feels shattered into a thousand pieces every time I think about what was unwittingly unleashed upon this nation.

If you wonder how in America we ended up rehashing the — already won — civil rights battles of the 1960s in the year 2023, you can blame people like me.

In the wake of the 2015 Republican primaries, a massive and well-oiled machine consisting of hundreds, if not thousands, of media and social media outlets started to come together to harness an outrage mob of tens of millions of Americans, aiming to make President Donald Trump — and, by default, all Republicans — “toxic.”

Today the ire of that mob has turned inward, and we find ourselves in the midst of something similar to a neo-Marxist cultural revolution — and it started with small groups of Americans like me and some fellow military veterans. Many disparate groups like mine simply didn’t like Trump’s rhetoric and wanted to speak out — then all of us became coopted by darker forces with an agenda.

My Experiences With the Narrative-Driven Media

Starting in 2015, I was growing disillusioned and quite heartbroken by what I viewed, at the time, as a growing sentiment of anti-Muslim rhetoric in the public sphere. As the son of Middle Eastern immigrants, I had a keen sensitivity to the anti-Muslim tropes that I was reading on social media. In one case, after a mass shooting incident, I remember a social media post that intimated that if the perpetrators were Muslim, it was “time for internment camps.”

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KEYWORDS: 2015; coupots; coupplots; crossfirehurricane; cultiralrevolution; culturalrevolution; demsunitedforukraine; mao; maoism; marxism; media; mediabias; military; nateterani; nevertrumpers; rncconvention; terani; warontrump
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1 posted on 06/10/2023 11:55:25 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Self deport yourself.


2 posted on 06/10/2023 11:57:38 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: grundle

The muslim who wrote this article is the type of useful idiot that the democrats are importing into this country by the millions.

Who cares if he comes to the realization he was wrong for voting for obama or hillary and supporting the democrat party communists. The damage is done and he must pay for his crimes.


3 posted on 06/10/2023 12:02:42 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: grundle

It’s too late to be sorry.
We have an entire government that is only about the government. 2020 and 2022 were in your face voter fraud.
Russiagate, political sanctioned government spying went unpunished, yet the legal system just accused a former POTUS of espionage because of his Presidential Library papers.
Liberals, like this author, have accused those who refuse to think like him, of being NAZI, while they enable and enrich George Soros(a real wanted NAZI)

The system, as it stands today, is unsustainable. Government employees are just raising the treasury on the way out.


4 posted on 06/10/2023 12:11:17 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: ConservativeInPA

If I was this fellow I suppose I would have to kill myself.

Giving him pity, could I be of assistance in any way?


5 posted on 06/10/2023 12:15:27 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: joma89

Guys like this are always first in the ditch.

The commies know the folks that brung them to the dance are too dumb to be trusted.


6 posted on 06/10/2023 12:16:31 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: grundle

Excellent article.


7 posted on 06/10/2023 12:18:40 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: grundle

I don’t care


8 posted on 06/10/2023 12:26:31 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: joma89
The damage is done and he must pay for his crimes.

Hang him!


9 posted on 06/10/2023 12:31:18 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: grundle

So, they just didn’t like Trump’s rhetoric, so they decided to trash the whole country? I am afraid that is exactly the reaction of a lot of anti-Trump Republicans. Trump does have an Ivy League education, but he doesn’t bother to act like it.

It is time that Republicans decide what is important, policies and the Constitution, or One World Fascism and ideology. If the style and rhetoric are all that matter to you, we would be better off if you stay home because a wishy washy Republican, like Mitt Romney or Mike Pence, who is concerned about appearances cannot win.


10 posted on 06/10/2023 12:37:38 PM PDT by Eva
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To: grundle
"In the wake of the 2015 Republican primaries, a massive and well-oiled machine consisting of hundreds, if not thousands, of media and social media outlets started to come together to harness an outrage mob of tens of millions of Americans, aiming to make President Donald Trump — and, by default, all Republicans — “toxic.”

Hyperbole much, dude? You're just another moron who can't understand that America was once the example that many other nations followed and the protector of the free world. It's like verified history doesn't exist in your Utopian commie world. ESAD.

11 posted on 06/10/2023 12:38:16 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: grundle

He’s a shining example of all the covid morons, the ones who wanted people in camps and to die, who now want us to put the past behind us and forget about all the things they did and said.


12 posted on 06/10/2023 12:56:02 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: grundle

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13 posted on 06/10/2023 1:11:35 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: grundle

Thank you for tagging yourself, Nate. Do us a favor and kill yourself.


14 posted on 06/10/2023 1:38:07 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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He has surely moved in circles of trust so far in his life for a Muslim whose parents came from Iran.

“Nate Terani is a military veteran, having served as a member of the elite U.S. Navy Presidential Honor Guard in Washington, D.C., and in HUMINT intelligence operations with the Defense Intelligence Agency. Nate’s writing has been published by the Huffington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, the Nation, TomDispatch, and many others.”


15 posted on 06/10/2023 1:39:22 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: grundle

Too little too late


16 posted on 06/10/2023 2:14:11 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: ansel12

published by the Huffington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, the Nation, TomDispatch, and many others.”


Commie propaganda rags.


17 posted on 06/10/2023 2:49:40 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: grundle

Bkmk


18 posted on 06/10/2023 3:59:22 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Pete Dovgan

Totally agree. Once trust is destroyed, there’s no going back.


19 posted on 06/10/2023 4:33:20 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: grundle

Why hasn’t Nate the little Blue Falcon been fragged yet?


20 posted on 06/10/2023 5:42:58 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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