This has not been the holiday season that so many of us had planned.Just two months ago, the good and righteous among us fervently hoped that America’s worst days would finally be put behind her, and a period of endless possibility would begin.Glass ceilings would be broken, and maybe for the time e...
When the Clock Broke offers a tour of the ’90s, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up Bush Sr running for office. Ganz also argues that the far right of the ’90s was a precursor to Trump, a claim reliant on distortions of past and present.
'Made violence his brand': Fascism scholar says threat of 2nd Trump term 'uniquely dangerous'
A leading expert on far-right, oppressive governments around the world is warning that former President Donald Trump would usher in fascism in the United States if he wins a second term this fall.In a detailed interview with Guardian reporter Alice Herman, scholar and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat — a profe...
Dystopia 2024: How Republicans' depiction of U.S. stacks up to the facts
It's a strikingly bleak picture of the United States being painted at the Republican convention: a dystopian portrait of a violent, impoverished, weakened nation.
The GOP’s Vision of an Authoritarian America Is…Coming True
Right about now, American democracy’s on the brink. While Joe Biden touts his accomplishments — and that’s fair enough — on the other side, something sinister, abusive, and perilous is happening. The…
Historian of Radical Right: Biden Is Correct, Trump Poses Existential Threat to Future of Democracy
In a primetime address Thursday, President Biden warned Donald Trump and his radical supporters are threatening the foundations of the republic. Biden said, “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” and that MAGA Republicans present a “clear and present danger to our democracy,” referring to Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again.” We speak with Nancy MacLean, author and Duke University historian, who says Biden’s speech was a “wake-up call” for the nation and mainstream media. “He was absolutely right, in my opinion, that the Trump wing of the party and the MAGA Republicans have jumped the rails of constitutional democracy, of the factual universe and of representative democracy.”
From the themayormccheese community on Reddit: Before the press came in, but while a live feed was running, Trump was speaking with the President of El Salvador. Referring to the deportation of U.S. citizens, he said: 'Home-growns are next... You're going to need to build about five more places.'
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Expert on Fascism Has a CHILLING Warning About What Comes Next
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Trump REFUSES to Free Innocent Immigrant He Sent to a Gulag, Says Americ...
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Yes, Donald Trump is Planning to Send U.S. Residents En Masse to Death Camps in El Salvador Run By Dictator Nayib Bukele
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'Put them in trauma': The October story that outlined exactly what Trump would do
In late October, ProPublica published one of its most prophetic stories in our history. You can be forgiven if you missed it at the time. There was a lot going on in the days before the election, and the headlines were dominated by seemingly consequential issues like the racist humor of a comedian w...
There is no magical way out of this — there will be blood
It would be helpful if we stopped pretending this terrible chapter in American history won’t close without bloodshed …It would be helpful if Americans, and our feeble Democratic politicians in particular, stopped implying by their comatose actions that Democracy is some damn American right and has n...
Cops CARRY AWAY Ex-NFL Player After He Condemns Trump’s “Nazi Movement” ...
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Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire
Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on eco...
Project 2025: Neo Fascism
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