New online: John Ganz (John Ganz) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

Here is the complete audio of my conversation with Riley. unpopularfront.news/p/the-battle-o…

This conversation is so smart in both historical and sociological terms that I couldn't resist sharing it w my subscribers at S*bst*ck. I can't think of anything more worth reading in the aftermath of yesterday's chilling Hegseth-Trump event with the generals in Quantico, VA.

This just out from Dissent.dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

Dylan Riley: "It doesn’t speak well to the American population that a much higher percentage of them voted for MAGA politics than the German population ever voted for National Socialism." dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

And the Big Lebowski is still better than all of them

Some personal news...

G'mar Chatima Tovah harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

It's really remarkable how close the anti-side of the fascism debate was to just repeating the formulas of the Third International

This fatty did a pretty good job in his day

Well, he did that by becoming a Republican

Pope Leo has rabbi voice

Bari Weiss is a mediocre vulgarian who has damaged every great American institution she has come in contact with.

Can't recommend John Ganz's "When the Clock Broke" enough. Finally someone has written a Rick Perlstein-style book that serves as a "fossil record of Trumpism". This one covers Bush 41's Administration and I really hope he's working on another volume for the rest of the 90s

Does he think Riley's statement supports him here, because it very much does not

I wonder if anybody on the left tried to come up with a materialist conception of MAGA as an authoritarian movement

Stop what you're doing and read this reflection on Percy Sutton, Eric Adams and the state of Black political power in New York by Basil A. Smikle PhD. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/percy…

This does not speak in your favor at all. It's an embarrassment, really. The publication and the lion's share of those writers became totally gleichgeschaltet by the end of the first Trump term.