It’s a common mistake to think of Trump as a madman but Trump’s strongman tactics are more predictable than they seem. Political commentator and New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains why. She writes: “I’M NOT the one trying to undermine American democracy. I’m the one who’s trying to save it,” Donald Trump told theContinue reading “Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the danger of strongmen leaders”
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American Capitalism Is Working — That’s the Problem
“It certainly feels like we’re failing.”
The Whole Country is Reichstag
EDITORIALBY ADOLPH REED, JR.AUGUST 23, 2021 It’s time to be blunt.1 The right-wing political alliance anchored by the Republican party and Trumpism coheres around a single concrete objective—taking absolute power in the U.S. as soon and as definitively as possible. And they’re more than ready, even seemingly want, to destroy the social fabric of the countryContinue reading “The Whole Country is Reichstag”
The nationalist interpretation
The future of authoritarian populism “A new book helps us make sense of this. Called “The End of the End of History,” it projects the future of global politics at a moment when Western liberal democracy’s future no longer seems assured, as the allusion to Francis Fukuyama’s famous (and misrepresented) thesis suggests. This sort ofContinue reading “The nationalist interpretation”
The American Abyss ::: NYT MAG Essay
The American Abyss ::: NYT A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. . . . Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. WithoutContinue reading “The American Abyss ::: NYT MAG Essay”
If America Fails? 