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#HatmarketBooks 3 months ago
#BloodInTheFace: #WhiteNationalism From #BirthOfANation to the Era of Trump
Guests: #DavidNeiwert, #JeanCassella, #RickPerlstein
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You have your own nightmares about what could happen if #Trump wins. #RickPerlstein gives you a few dozen more.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-30-what-will-you-do-trump-wins/ -
From #RickPerlstein
> I certainly don’t disagree that #Trump is becoming more cognitively impaired and out of touch with reality. But might not these impairments render him a better #fascist seducer, as his invitations to infantile regression become ever more primal, ever more basic, ever more pure?
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-02-who-are-the-undecided/
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#RickPerlstein's persuasive hypothesis about undecided voters:
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-10-02-who-are-the-undecided/"I imagine that…at least some of them…are undecided because they are poised at a threshold. 'Undecided' is a way station between the final surrender to the Trumpian fantasy [protection by an all-powerful figure, all enemies destroyed]…and sticking with the rest of us in the reality-based community, despite all the existential terrors the real world affords."
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3) "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein - this is a heavy book that asks one basic question - how could the US go from the largest democratic landslide in 1964 to the largest republican one in 1972. He argues we essentially live in the house that Nixon built with all of its violence and chaos.
#Books #Bookstodon #History #USA #rickperlstein
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"Rufo cares about the actual values that sustain a liberal vision of freedom and justice in same way that Israeli war-cabinet minister who calls for 'voluntary resettlement of Palestinians in Gaza, for humanitarian reasons' actually cares about humanitarianism." #RickPerlstein https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-10-first-they-came-for-harvard/
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"[T]he Republican Party and its associated institutions of movement conservatism, at least since George and Jeb Bush stole the 2000 election in Florida, has been ratcheting remorselessly toward an understanding of the accumulation of political power, to which they believe themselves ineluctably entitled as the only truly legitimate Americans, as a question of will—up to and including the projection of will by the force of arms." #RickPerlstein https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=f83630579d055dc5843ae693e7cdafe0.2515&s=ce07d2b5feef04b26a83a61bce292370
