Clusterfuck-2021

Rafael Khachaturian on the United States’ ongoing political crisis.

We cannot police our way out of authoritarianism. An increasingly authoritarian police state in the hands of the “right” bourgeois elites will not suppress the far right; it will instead train a new generation of far-right foot soldiers and target, disorganize, and destroy fascism’s most dogged opponents among the far left.

By Argiris Malapanis and Geoff Mirelowitz Feb. 3, 2021—In the article titled “Radicalism, Bonapartism, and the Aftermath of the 2020 U.S. Elections,” published Jan. 13 by World-Outlook.com, we desc…

Thomas Watters explains why a class analysis of the petite bourgeoisie is crucial to understanding the current political moment.

Charlie Post responds to Cihan Tuğal's critique of Spectre's editorial statement on the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Stone says he wasn't involved, but the evidence suggests he's lying—yet again.

Trying to find another avenue to push his baseless election claims, Donald Trump considered installing a loyalist, and had the men make their cases to him.

Throughout the final, frenzied days of the Trump administration, a reporter rode shotgun with the outgoing acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller, the man who, under the distracted eye of his commander in chief, became America’s de facto guardian.

To fight fascism we need long-haul working class organizations, concrete political alternatives, and, most urgently, a popular anti-fascist movement in the streets.

Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by economic despair in rural America.

After what even Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell called, with surprising accuracy, a “failed insurrection” at the United States Capitol, the

The House has voted to impeach Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection”. What do you make of the choice to impeach on this ground?

Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.

We think we'll remember how bad this presidency was, but history says we won't.

‘That’s where my hope lies.’

His months of lying about the election and his failure to respond immediately to the attack are further evidence of his guilt.

Donald Trump did not cause the white lumpenproletariat, although his words and actions have mobilized and unleashed them in a variety of alt-right, neo-Nazi, fascist, and white nationalist organizations, including armed militias that will probably become more active if Trump is denied the presidency.

How Trump torched what was arguably the most consequential relationship in his Cabinet.

Episode 3 of an Axios special series on the president's post-election meltdown.

A turn toward nationalism following the MAGA storm on D.C. erases the Black radical tradition of rebellion—and endangers its future.

Trump increasingly turns to radical voices telling him what he wants to hear.

Axios takes you inside the collapse with a special series.

Republican leaders enjoy flashing their badges as the “Party of Lincoln,” preening themselves on Lincoln’s moral victories and declaring themselves his

The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.

The Capitol riot has ended the notion that the president's hardcore base was motivated by economic anxiety. It has always been about race.

Despite murderous ambitions and abundant guns, the Capitol assault was a failure.

Trump has baselessly alleged widespread voter fraud in over half a dozen races since 2012 – mostly in instances where the contests did not go his or the GOP's way.

What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us. But despite the geographic confusion, George W. Bush, Jake Tapper, and Meghan McCain correctly identified that nothing like this has happened here for a long time.