#reactionary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reactionary, aggregated by home.social.
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M.H.R.
The Passion and Redemption of a Proletarian Seer It’s barely been ten days but this is different. I wrote the following piece on M.H.R., as I like to call him, many months ago. And, even though I’ve sent it out to a range of outlets, no one wants to publish it. So (partly to test the possibility of using this newsletter as a very occasional substack as well) I’m sharing it directly with you. In the light of the film that was made about him, M.H.R. feels not only significant but also […] -
Teaching colleague Pat, looking like a hell of a lot of fun, in my first apartment, on Bridge Street in Mifflintown. 1977. #olddays #goodolddays #goodtimes #memory #memories #1970s #twentiethcentury #mifflintown #bridgestreet #smalltown #pennsylvania #centralpennsylvania #smalltownlife #livinginasmalltown #countrytown #hillbilly #hillbillies #juniatacounty #reactionary #conservative #apartment #apartmentlife #firstapartment #1970sfashion #vintagefashion #heirloomclothing
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The "mood of the #nation," in 1972, was so overwhelmingly #vengeful, #greedy, #bigoted, and blindly #reactionary that no presidential candidate who even faintly reminded "typical #voters" of the #fear & #anxiety they'd felt during the constant "social upheavals" of the 1960s had any chance at all of beating #Nixon last year--not even #TedKennedy...
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
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In addition to relationships with #Thiel and #Yarvin,
#Vance is also in close contact with the
💥bottom feeders on the far right. 💥For nearly two years, according to The Washington Post, Vance was in regular conversation by text message with
#Chuck #Johnson,
a notorious Holocaust denier who has spent the better part of a decade promoting right-wing conspiracy theories.And as my Michelle Goldberg wrote this week,
Vance is close enough to #Jack #Posobiec
— an alt-right lunatic who pushed the vile and absurd Pizzagate conspiracy theory
and collaborated with online neo-Nazis to spread antisemitic hate
— to blurb his latest book, a polemic devoted to the idea that liberals and leftists are #Untermenschen who must be stopped lest they destroy civilization.“As they are opposed to humanity itself,” Posobiec and his co-author, Joshua #Lisec, write,
“they place themselves outside of the category completely, in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman.”♦️These are the friends and influences that JD Vance brought with him to the United States Senate,
♦️and these will almost certainly be the same friends and influences he’ll bring to the White House if he is elected vice president.#most #extreme #elements #Peter #Thiel #Curtis #Yarvin #authoritarian #postliberal #reactionary #exhausted
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If Trump wins, he’ll be a vessel for the most regressive figures in US politics
#CPAC is a harbinger of what a second #Trump presidency would bring,
influenced by a consortium of self-proclaimed #Christian #nationalists and #reactionary #dark #money groups like the Heritage Foundation who see Trump as their return ticket to relevancy.The #Heritage #Foundation has poured $22m into #Project2025, their plan to 🔸gut the “deep state” and radically reshape the government 🔸with a souped-up version of the #unitary #executive theory, which contends that the president should be allowed to enact his agenda without pesky checks and balances.
To paraphrase one speaker at CPAC: ♦️“Welcome to the end of democracy.”♦️
The Heritage Foundation’s policy agenda is disturbingly #radical, even by the standards of the modern Republican party.
They want to #dismantle the administrative state, #ban #abortion completely at the state and federal level, and, as always, #cut #taxes for the rich.They would put #religious #liberties over civil ones, and #Christian rights over the rights of #women, people of color, #LGBTQ+ people and really anyone who does not look and think exactly like they do.
As Trump himself said in an alarmingly theocratic speech last week:
“No one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration, I swear to you.”And we have no reason to doubt him. Russell #Vought, a radical involved with Project 2025 who speaks with Trump at least twice a month, is a candidate to be the next White House chief of staff.
Vought works closely with the Christian nationalist William #Wolfe, a former Trump administration official who has advocated for ending surrogacy, no-fault divorce, sex education in schools and policies that “subsidize single motherhood”.
The Heritage Foundation has even called for “ending recreational sex”.
Media coverage of Trump tends to focus on his mounting legal woes (nearly half a billion in damages and counting) and increasingly bizarre rants (magnets don’t work underwater).But such an approach misses the point.
We can’t risk focusing on spectacle at the expense of strategy, and he has made his strategy perfectly clear.