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Opinion - Michelle Goldberg
Jan. 12, 2026It’s striking how much the arguments that Trump is not a fascist have suffered in just the first few days of this year, in which we’ve plunged to new depths of national madness.
Both ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis and Trump’s threatened seizure of Greenland are part of the same story: An increasingly unpopular regime is rapidly radicalizing and testing how far it can go down the road toward autocracy. If people had predicted back in 2024 precisely what Trump’s return to the White House was going to look like, I suspect they’d have been accused of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. But the shrillest of Resistance libs have always understood Trump better than those who make a show of their dispassion. As the heterodox writer Leighton Woodhouse put it on X, “The hysterical pussy hats were right.”
Oh shit, all those Scholars and experts on the rise of fascism who warned you that this was a rise of fascism were right? Well who the hell could have figured that out? Also what the fuck is a resistance lib? Is that a way of referring to leftist and yet somehow still giving liberals some shred of revelance? Never heard that phrase before but it sounds like fucking nonsense to me.
A “resistance lib” is a made up othering term that shows how far right the NYT has gone.
Given which, as voroxpete said, means this is a pretty significant admission on their part.
I think the important takeaway here is not what’s being said, but that the New York Times is saying it. That’s a pretty significant shift.