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Keep An Eye on the Right’s ‘Anakinmaxxing’ Argument Against Elections

Exclude from home pageCurated Content  |  November 9, 2026

Read the full story: Religion Dispatches

It starts, as far too many political discussions do, with a meme posted by Elon Musk on X, his everyNazi app. In this case, it’s an AI-generated Star Wars meme he captions “This is what they stole from us” (which is itself a meme). To fully appreciate the authoritarian message it conveys requires a bit of background, which is part of the point. After all, the GOP’s largest election donor can’t exactly go around explicitly calling for the end of democracy.

 

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