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The fact that Trump's coup attempt (or "autocoup," if you're the kind of person whose favorite word about words is "Actually...") is failing shouldn't blind us to the fact that
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We knew covid would skyrocket. & still, I don't understand CNN, NYT, WaPo. 216 k cases today. Around 4,000 of those people will die. I want to see banner headlines.
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I'm not crazy about best-of lists. @NewYorker framed it better: "The Best Books We Read." Except for lists made by the pathologically omnivorous, that should be standard. The best "best-of"
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Morning NPR: "The president has sounded somewhat divisive & frankly petty at times." Dangerous euphemism presenting as candor, post-election reframing of authoritarianism as merely politics & manners. The old press
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Thinking about Peter Turchin's argument in @TheAtlantic that the memory of collective action is what makes democracy possible. If we grant this premise, what does it say for our moment,
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Everybody, please help Michigan @SenMikeShirkey remember that today is the day where he gets to be an American hero or the lackey who ended 244 years of democracy. It's not
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Growing dominance of "Blue Lives Matter" flag w/in Trumpism suggests a formation close to but not identical w/ both white nationalism & police state: I'll call it "police nationalism." Identity
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Those dismayed at what is evidently considerable support for Trump must remember that fascism isn't a fad. It takes time to grow. It's been growing a long time. It will
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The beginning: In '15 I asked editors if I cld cover Trump as a convergence of strands w/in U.S. Right. Editors thought he was a joke. But in early '16
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I’ve been reporting on US & global rightwing movements for 20 years, 4 years on the Trump beat. I read Trumpism from a religious studies background, attentive to the myths,
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First the black, white & blue anti-Black Lives Matter flag flew outside of Trump rallies, then on stage, next to the US flag; in Wisconsin last week it replaced the
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Some of my fellow lefties won't hold their noses and vote against Trump (by voting for Biden) because they think revolution is a real possibility. That's an ahistorical romance, based,
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