Tag: Donald Trump
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The Abnormality of American Violence and Conditioning — Shahid Bolsen
“The American mind resets every morning, and that is the perfect condition for those in Power.” On the conditioning of White people in the U.S.: “…if people really understood history, then they would recognize that nothing about the American system is accidental. Everything from its racial hierarchy to its economic disparities, to its unjust foreign…
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Fox News and El Paso Gunman are on same Page: Fox Repeats Shooter’s Manifesto Verbatim
Fox News has echoed talking points from the El Paso shooter’s manifesto regarding a Hispanic “invasion” for some time. The attempt of Trump to relate the Dayton’s shooter’s left-wing sentiments to Elizabeth Warren is a cunning distraction and a deceitful comparison. “Will leaders sit back as invasion happens?” TUCKER CARLSON, COMING TO AMERICA SEGMENT Perhaps,…
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Everyone now sees fascists
An excerpt from Brendan O’Neill’s essay, Bolsonaro is not a fascist, on the danger of branding everyone a fascist; something rather than genuinely foreboding, becoming a sign of intellectual laziness. INTRODUCTION Mussolini’s made a prediction of the future in the Last Days of his “Italian Social Republic” in 1945, when he gave instructions to Italian…
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Classical Scholars against the Identitarian Right
In the mid-point to the last quarter of 2018, many articles were written across platforms and the internet on how the Alt-Right and Conservatives were misappropriating “the Greek and Latin Classics” to lend credibility to vicious and vindictive white supremacist and Identitarian ideology. I have compiled several to introduce to us a problem. Classics and…
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Why Trump Is Not a Fascist: A Conversation with Vivek Chibber and Achin Vanaik
A great conversation with reflection Achin Vanaik (“The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism”) and Vivek Chibber (“Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital”) discuss new forms of authoritarianism and nationalism in the age of Modi, Putin, Erdogan, and Trump. The discussion was moderated by Amber A’Lee Frost (“Current Affairs” and “Chapo Trap House”) at Verso Books…
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The Origins of the Religious Right with Samantha Bee
The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS II “I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another” (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Philadelphia, Jan. 26, 1799)
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The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”
“The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic, and transforming it into a democracy. The foremost tactic of the subverters is subversion of “language” — by calling America a democracy, until people thoughtlessly accept the term, and use the…
The American Minervan 