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Nexus X HumectressThe gist of this article is that Trumpism actually has nothing to do with fascism but could possibly, kinda sorta, be a stepping stone to fascism, maybe. Sometimes I think these “anti-fascist” people actually want fascism to happen so they can have something to feel heroic and/or self-righteous […]
Jacobin contributing editor, Matt Karp, discusses what shifts in the Democratic coalition mean for the future of the party.
The socioeconomic data in this is interesting. Saagar Enjeti explains why a media landscape without Donald Trump is “boring,” he also predicts the future political landscape.
This a good takedown of the Democrats. Krystal Ball explains why candidates shouldn’t be judged by the diversity box they check, but by their records, views, and commitments to voters.
Actually, “driving partisanship” was the best thing Koch ever did. Thanks, Charlie. Team Rising discusses Charles Koch’s new book and his statements about partisanship.
The universal victory of anti-police state referendums was the most important thing to come out of the election, much more so than the presidential contest. But the big question is what will the state attack as it loses the drug war as a tool? Executive Director of the […]
Trump TV would be hilarious, particularly if it created a major split between FAUX and the Trumpists. Divide, divide, divide… Team Rising gives their take on reported plans by Trump allies to buyout Newsmax TV as a Fox News Alternative.
A split between the neocons and Trumpists at FAUX News. Hopefully, some serious bloodletting takes place.
I belonged to the ACLU briefly in the 1990s. They’ve always had a big internal debate over “Should we be progressives or should we be actual civil libertarians?” Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses how the ACLU’s platforms could change in a post-Trump era.
The end of American unilateral hegemony will not be merely a return to the multi-polar order of the liberal era prior to the two world wars. Nor will it be the kind of multi-partner system envisioned by the liberal internationalists or the multicultural “global community” envisioned by the […]
This article nails it down pretty down. The main thing I would add is the left’s embrace of scientism (“science” is not merely a process capable of generating error like anything else but the modern version of a papal bull) and therapeutism (“health” is the highest value and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The news broke like a fever last Monday night. A deal had been signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the bloody month long war in Nagorno-Karabakh which had claimed the lives of thousands on both sides. This […]
I’ve generally noticed that the people with the best foreign policy analysis tend to be hardcore libertarians/an-caps or hardcore Marxist-Leninists/Maoists. The same is true of class analysis. Both will point out that a middle-class American is within the global 1% of income level. Jason also explains how most […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Logos to discuss the near-total collapse of the anti-war movement. This is the Jason Unruhe video I referenced in this. This more or less explains why there is no constituency for anti-imperialism in the US,
By Graeme Wood, The Atlantic Peter Turchin, one of the world’s experts on pine beetles and possibly also on human beings, met me reluctantly this summer on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he teaches. Like many people during the pandemic, he preferred to […]
Usually about half of eligible voters actually participate. This time it was two-thirds. By Annie Goldsmith, Town and Country record number of Americans turned out to vote in this year’s presidential race between President Donald Trump and now President-Elect Joe Biden. Biden just won the presidency with over […]
This is a pretty good analysis/overview although “fascism” really isn’t the correct term for what is being described, which is something far more sophisticated than the classical cult of the strongman. Fascism is something that tends to emerge in societies that are still in a relatively early stage […]
By Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Might we be witnessing but not heeding a historical moment that years hence, we wouldlookbackandretrospectivelychristenthetwilightofAmericanimperialism? DonaldTrumpstarted a trend the very first year of his presidency of withdrawing or threatening to withdraw from sundry international agreements that previous administrations had negotiated and signed on behalf of […]
I’ve also seen plenty of commentaries describing how yoga, hiking clubs, stamp collectors clubs, and even the Southern Baptist Convention are being infiltrated by SJWs. Apparently, everything is becoming politicized, even stuff that shouldn’t rationally be considered political. And “both sides” are increasingly coming to view an electoral […]
When Trump was elected, there were liberals and leftists call for a reversal of the election by the Electoral College as well. By Tom Porter, Business Insider President Donald Trump has asked aides about a plan to remain in office by subverting the Electoral College, The New York […]
So Chad Himmler defies the orders of the Orange Fuhrer? This has got to be the most limp-dicked “coup attempt” in history. By Steven Nelson, New York Post Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf is defying President Trump’s order to terminate election cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, […]
The most immediately obvious problem with this article is that it merely makes the left-opposition into an appendage of the Democratic Party (to the degree they are not already) held captive by rightwingophobia. Although a valid point the article makes is that the neocons will indeed attempt to […]
Good luck with getting Kamala to roll back any aspect of the police state. By Cathy Reisenwitz Kamala Harris’s election as U.S. vice president is truly historic. Harris is the first woman and first Black American to serve as vice president, the first Black woman ever even nominated […]
The ironic thing about this meme is that the Republicans have actually become more diverse under Trump.
This is a somewhat interesting analysis from a left-communist/an-com/Bordigist perspective. Listen here.
A ruling class unity regime is now in power without the distraction of Trump as a chaos agent. I’m sure Bill Kristol is overjoyed.
Caleb Maupin on the rising ruling class that is becoming dominant among the US power elite.
A pretty good discussion of the demographics of US electoral politics from a paleoconnish perspective. I expect to the Republican Party to take more leftward drift in the future and develop elements that more closely resemble European Christian Democrats (very mild social democratic rhetoric couched in quasi-religious terms) […]
A pretty interesting discussion of the Left/Right divide from a thone-and-altar perspective. My take on the Left/Right dichotomy is that while there are important philosophical differences between the two but, as Kirkpatrick Sale and Peter Marshall have pointed out, the wider anarchist critique of power is over and […]
By Sarah Lazare, In These Times In July 2019, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president, Joe Biden declared in a foreign policy speech, “It’s past time to end the Forever Wars, which have cost us untold blood and treasure.” But the president-elect — who as vice president oversaw wars […]
By Bradley Birzer, The Imaginative Conservative The grand Anglo-Irish statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797) spent much of his last eight years dwelling upon the French Revolution as well as trying to define its most important elements. If the British failed to understand the “armed doctrine” of the Revolutionaries as […]
By James K. Galbreath, The Nation The New Industrial State was my father’s great work of theory. First published in 1967, nearly a decade after the triumph of The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State went beyond criticism of orthodox economics, beyond Marx and beyond Keynes—toward a full […]
By Peter Turchin Something happened in the United States during the 1970s. According to a number of indicators, well-being of the majority of Americans, which had been growing for many decades, entered a regime of stagnation and, eventually, decline. The trend towards greater equality in incomes and wealth […]
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative It’s time for a new electoral map, one that colors the states according to what Donald Trump thinks should happen to the votes there. So make Pennsylvania and Michigan lavender since Trump wants their counting to stop. Arizona can go mauve since […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Well, you’ll be happy to know that the next US president and his crack team of ventriloquists are assembling a cabinet of mass murderers that’s as diverse, inclusive and intersectional as America herself. It’s been obvious for a long time that Joe Biden’s cabinet would […]
By Aryeh Botwinick,TELOS From a Machiavellian perspective, peace is war by other means. You can have a much greater watchful vigilance of your former (or future) opponent in times of peace than in a time of war. Israel as a sponsor (or co-sponsor) of a kind of Middle […]
By Sureyyya Evren Although anarchists have a central interest in problems of domination and oppression, concepts of race and ethnicity have not been subject to sustained analysis in anarchist literature. This failure can be explained with reference to the priority that has been given to the great ideas […]
By Sureyyya Evren Dominant histories of anarchism rely on a historical framework that ill fits anarchism. Mainstream anarchist historiography is not only blind to non-Western elements of historical anarchism, it also misses the very nature of fin de siècle world radicalism and the contexts in which activists and […]
With the exception of Obama and maybe Jimmy Carter, he was the most liberal president in US history.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti share their thoughts on what will happen after all 50 states certify their election results.
What could possibly go wrong?
The voters said no to the neocons? Jacobin Editor-A-Large, David Sirota, discusses how the Lincoln Project’s goal to “reduce Republican Trump support” may have actually backfired
The richest ruling class in history presiding over a Third World class system. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss The Labor Department’s report that jobless claims hit 709,000 for the week ending Nov. 7, down from 757,000 the week before.
A pretty good discussion of automation is included in this. Founder of Humanity Forward, Andrew Yang, reacts to the results of the 2020 election. He also discusses his hope for the future of UBI.
Trump out of power but as a permanent thorn in the side to both the Democrats and Republicans might actually be a positive thing, particularly if he starts his own TV network to undermine FOX.
By Glenn Greenwald, Subtack That the liberal belief in and fear of a Trump-led fascist dictatorship and violent coup is actually a fantasy — a longing, a desire, a craving — has long been obvious. The Democrats’ own actions proved that they never believed their own melodramatic and […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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