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fromThe American Conservative
1 day ago

MAGA Champion Need Not Apply

Trump was their champion-a comedian, a performer, but, most importantly, a fighter. If MAGA was anything, it was a coalition bound less by shared policy goals than by a shared sense of grievance and a love for the game.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days ago

The Supreme Court gave the right-wing the one thing it wanted in the conversion therapy case - LGBTQ Nation

The Supreme Court ruled on Chiles v. Salazar, impacting the legality of conversion therapy and First Amendment rights for therapists.
fromemptywheel
6 days ago

The Anti-American Right - emptywheel

Jefferson's words on equality are often seen as self-evident, yet they fail to encompass enslaved individuals, women, and other marginalized groups, revealing a significant contradiction.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
6 days ago

Republicans slammed for "cruel" one-word response to the Trans Day of Visibility - LGBTQ Nation

Protesters rallied in Sioux Falls for transgender rights against anti-trans bills, while Republicans faced backlash for their dismissive response to Transgender Day of Visibility.
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fromSlate Magazine
23 hours ago

There's a Reason MAGA Figures Can't Seem to Stop Talking About Aliens. It's Much Darker Than It Appears.

Gregg Phillips and J.D. Vance express unconventional beliefs that reflect broader trends in American belief systems.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

How Long Can You Live Your Ideals?

Pat Calhoun chooses parenthood over radicalism, paralleling Elsa Haddish's struggle between her militant past and raising her daughter safely.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days ago

This GOP lawmaker tried to ban trans people from becoming teachers. He failed miserably. - LGBTQ Nation

Kentucky Senator Gex Williams' attempts to ban trans individuals from teaching have failed amid legislative roadblocks and opposition.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The Guardian view on Britain's religious right: using and abusing faith in the pursuit of power | Editorial

Reform UK's policy aims to prevent church conversions to mosques, exploiting cultural division for political gain despite rare occurrences of such conversions.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

We Are Bigger Than Trump': Conservative Guest Host On The View Says She's Heartbroken About This Country'

I've been feeling so uninspired and so heartbroken about this country. What I realize, I keep wanting to put my head in the sand and pray that I wake up and it's all over.
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fromJezebel
6 days ago

Far-Right Christian Group Gets the Supreme Court to Greenlight Gay Conversion Therapy

The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors violates free speech, endangering LGBTQ+ youth's safety and wellbeing.
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fromTruthout
2 days ago

Faith Leaders Confront Christian Nationalism With Theological Resistance

Clergy play a vital role in resistance work against authoritarianism, using their presence and faith to support communities under threat.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

A new world is being born': author Rebecca Solnit on the slow revolution' the far right cannot tolerate

Rebecca Solnit emphasizes a slow revolution in societal attitudes, contrasting it with the immediate crises of fascism and despair.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It's Made

William F. Buckley Jr. confronted the John Birch Society to maintain conservatism's mainstream appeal, a challenge echoed by conservatives in subsequent decades.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It's Made

William F. Buckley Jr. confronted the John Birch Society to maintain conservatism's mainstream appeal, a challenge echoed by conservatives in subsequent decades.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It's Made

William F. Buckley Jr. confronted the John Birch Society to maintain conservatism's mainstream appeal, a challenge echoed by conservatives in subsequent decades.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It's Made

William F. Buckley Jr. confronted the John Birch Society to maintain conservatism's mainstream appeal, a challenge echoed by conservatives in subsequent decades.
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Homophobia Is Back. It's Different Now.

LaBeouf hasn't anchored a box-office hit in more than a decade, and little of his 2020s art-house work has drawn buzz. The most notable thing he's starred in lately was a clip of him on a podcaster's couch, hunched and diminished, talking about his fear of gay people.
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fromTruthout
2 days ago

Trump Relies on Centuries-Old Notions of Whiteness to Activate His MAGA Base

The AI-generated image of the Obamas as apes reflects deep-rooted anti-Black racism and provokes justified outrage within the Black community.
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fromTruthout
1 month ago

New Extremist "Freedom Caucuses" Are Pushing State Governments Right Across US

The State Freedom Caucus Network has expanded to at least 15 state affiliates, providing organizational support and policy guidance to advance ultra-right-wing agendas across state legislatures.
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fromJezebel
3 days ago

New Poll Spells Doom for the GOP With Key 'Double Hater' Voters

Joe Rogan and Theo Von express confusion over U.S. military actions, highlighting a disconnect in political understanding among the public.
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fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Using Bigotry to Hide an Authoritarian, Christian Nationalist Agenda

Republican leaders evade condemning inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric from colleagues, instead deflecting to unsubstantiated concerns about Sharia law implementation in America.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Young women are also moving closer to the far right, just more slowly than men

Young women across Europe are increasingly supporting far-right parties, driven by social-conservative shifts, labor market dissatisfaction, and effective far-right politicization of grievances.
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fromTruthout
4 days ago
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Christian Nationalists in US Government Push Attacks on Iran as Holy War

fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago
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Former Trump official admits that their goal is to impose their Christian values on other Americans - LGBTQ Nation

A former Trump administration official advocates for Christians to impose biblical morality through legislation at all government levels.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago
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Fox News Attacks CNN's Hit Piece' On Christian Nationalism With Misleading Edit

Fox News aired only a brief teaser and omitted the sentence linking Christian nationalism with the Trump administration.
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fromTruthout
4 days ago

Christian Nationalists in US Government Push Attacks on Iran as Holy War

The rhetoric surrounding Easter reflects a shift towards a militant interpretation of Jesus among some Christian nationalists.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago

Former Trump official admits that their goal is to impose their Christian values on other Americans - LGBTQ Nation

A former Trump administration official advocates for Christians to impose biblical morality through legislation at all government levels.
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fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

Republicans rage after Trump appears to soften stance on trans care

Trump revised a policy post on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, removing language about parental approval within hours, creating ambiguity about his position.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago

TPUSA Attacks Thomas Massie Despite Charlie Kirk Liking Him

Turning Point USA amplified Trump's attacks on Rep. Thomas Massie despite late co-founder Charlie Kirk previously praising the congressman as a constitutional conservative.
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fromWIRED
6 days ago

The Promise of 'Woke 2' Is Fueling a Leftist Fever Dream

Donald Trump's 2024 victory was seen as a rejection of 'woke' ideology, leading to a culture of offensive speech without fear of consequences.
fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

A Notorious Trump Pastor Is Running for Congress

Jackson Lahmeyer has made headlines for his inflammatory comments, including labeling the LGBTQ+ community as 'sick' and calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization. His provocative style has garnered attention and positioned him within the MAGA movement.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

A Word for Our Troubled Times

A record high of adults—80 percent—believes that Americans are divided on the most important values. National pride, trust in government, and confidence in institutions are near record lows. The Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz says the United States hasn't been this divided since the Civil War. Nearly half of Americans think another civil war is likely in their lifetime.
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fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago

Trump's National Security Strategy Is a Blueprint for White Nationalism

The Trump administration promotes white nationalism through its National Security Strategy, misrepresenting European economic decline while attributing it to multiracial democracy rather than global wealth redistribution.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Analyst says liberal is no longer a "4-letter word" as conservatives rapidly lose their edge - LGBTQ Nation

A record share of Americans now identify as liberal, driven mainly by Democrats, coinciding with stronger Democratic midterm prospects.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

British conservatives once looked down on the American right. Now they're riding on Maga's coat-tails | Kojo Koram

The US's clear military and economic dominance of the postwar world gave it an obvious claim to seniority; however, there was also a strong strain within English conservatism at the time that saw itself as Greeks in this American empire, in the words of former Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan. In other words, even if the Americans were to be the new Romans, extending their dominion over every corner of the globe, without the intellectual, cultural and political guidance of their wise old mother country they would quickly fall into ruin.
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fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

This Is What American Fascism Looks Like | The Walrus

Canada must confront U.S. overreach, clarify threats, and strengthen independent policies and international cooperation to protect sovereignty and democracy.
fromNature
2 months ago

'Greed is the iron cage of our times' - why nationalism is here to stay

Collating data from the World Bank and other sources in innovative ways, he argues that globalization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century was accompanied by then-unprecedented growth of income in both previously poor populations (notably in China) and people at the top of the world's income distribution (especially those in the West). By contrast, relative shares of world income stagnated or were thought to have declined for wealthy nations' middle and working classes, including in the United States.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago
US politics

12-year-old op-ed sends MAGA into a tizzy: Marriage equality will bring the "End Times"! - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago
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12-year-old op-ed sends MAGA into a tizzy: Marriage equality will bring the "End Times"! - LGBTQ Nation

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fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

The New Faces of Christian Nationalism

Mercy Culture megachurch in Fort Worth uses its political arm, For Liberty & Justice, to elect candidates committed to religiously infused far-right politics, exploiting the weakened Johnson Amendment restrictions on church political endorsements.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality

Universities have replaced churches and unions as primary institutions shaping young liberals' moral imagination, community, and political activism.
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fromQueerty
3 weeks ago

This conservative is losing his mind over Biden's "gay maps," but the joke's on him - Queerty

A congressman's criticism of a Biden-era grant-funded project reveals fundamental misunderstanding of what the project actually does, as demonstrated by his inability to accurately describe its purpose.
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fromThe Conversation
2 months ago

What is Christian Reconstructionism and why it matters in US politics

Society should be governed by biblical principles, including applying Old Testament civil penalties within modern legal and cultural systems.
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fromThe American Conservative
4 weeks ago

So Much for the Anti-War Left!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered hawkish internationalist statements at the Munich Security Conference, defending NATO and criticizing Trump's withdrawal from global engagement, disappointing the antiwar left.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago
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The far right thinks kids are property, not people. This is the heart of the anti-trans moral panic. - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago
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The far right thinks kids are property, not people. This is the heart of the anti-trans moral panic. - LGBTQ Nation

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fromApaonline
2 months ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy

Prevailing accounts of affective polarization misdiagnose the phenomenon by focusing on survey patterns instead of the underlying narrative and affective practices that shape political life.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

MAGA's Animal Nationalism

Senior DOJ officials formed a Cabinet-level strike force to protect dogs and other animals, expanding administration-wide bans and reductions in animal research and testing.
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fromAeon
2 months ago

The West's forgotten republican heritage | Aeon Essays

Power to shape daily life has shifted to markets, corporations, and data systems, leaving citizens feeling powerless and fueling a turn toward authoritarian politics.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Christian conservative leader rages at Presbyterian Church for honoring "obscene" Renee Good - LGBTQ Nation

Bill Donohue publicly smeared Renee Nicole Good, mischaracterizing her actions and queer identity after she was fatally shot by an ICE agent.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Conservative pastor says feminism is a "form of transgenderism" in hateful rant - LGBTQ Nation

Feminism equates to transgenderism; feminist women reject femininity, cause societal decline, weaken men, lower birthrates, and drive immigration.
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fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

Former MAGA Supporters Are Sharing The "Wake-Up Calls" That Finally Made Them Leave

Former MAGA supporters cite pandemic mismanagement, January 6, broken economic promises, immigration policies, and abortion restrictions as reasons for abandoning the movement.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Conservative group leader calls MAGA a "rotting carcass" that has already lost the culture war - LGBTQ Nation

the rotting carcass of the MAGA era, its shrieking insecurities, its pathetic resentments, its festering hatreds, and that distinct, metallic tang of panic rising in the back of its throat behind the soft wattle.
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fromQueerty
2 months ago

America's creepiest homophobes just joined forces to overturn gay marriage & it immediately backfired on them - Queerty

A coalition of prominent anti-LGBT groups launched a campaign to overturn Obergefell but is met with scorn rather than expected conservative enthusiasm.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Economist says Trump is running "least conservative government" he's ever seen - LGBTQ Nation

Trump presidency's institutional damage will cause unquantifiable, long-term economic losses in innovation, entrepreneurship, and future technologies, reducing U.S. global competitiveness.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Intellectual Edgelords of the GOP

The Department of Homeland Security's Facebook account recently posted a recruiting notice for ICE under the banner "WE'LL HAVE OUR HOME AGAIN"-the title of a white-nationalist anthem by the Pine Tree Riots ("By blood or sweat, we'll get there yet"). The Department of Labor recently posted a video montage referencing American battle scenes under the tagline "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American"-a slogan close to the Nazi-era Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

What Trump's War Against Wokeness Is Really About

The most notable, and perhaps most effective, ad of the 2024 presidential campaign featured footage of the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, voicing her support for gender-affirming treatment for inmates in federal prisons. "Kamala is for they/ them. President Trump is for you," the narrator concluded. The spot was a crisp, 30-second encapsulation of one of the key Republican talking points of the cycle: that "wokeness" was sweeping the nation and upending established ways of life, and that Donald Trump would fight against it.
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fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Antidemocratic Zealots Presiding Over Trump's Makeover of US History

Freedom 250 is being used to infuse MAGA messaging into the U.S. semiquincentennial celebration and reshape national institutions with Trump's branding.
fromLGBTQ Nation
6 months ago

No, I won't be shedding any tears for Charlie Kirk - LGBTQ Nation

Charlie Kirk believed that gay people should be stoned to death, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake," that we should legally be allowed to whip foreigners in the U.S., that Muslims only move here to destroy the country, that American Jews encourage anti-whiteness, that men should physically attack transgender people, that all women should submit to their husbands, and that Black professionals "steal" their jobs from more qualified white people.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

America has reached a tipping point on fascism and on opposition to it | Robert Reich

Recent events in Minneapolis and federal actions have driven lifelong Republicans away, exposing lies and accelerating a slide toward a repressive, fascist police state.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Douthat: Trumpism is doomed without restraint

The second interpretation purports to be more hardheaded and sensible, wiser and world-weary after so many years of watching Trump at work. Isn't this always how he negotiates? Stake out an absurd-sounding position, freak out all the institutionalists and keepers of consensus, rattle the markets and then use the madman's leverage to induce other countries to accept an advantageous-for-America deal?
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fromThe American Conservative
2 months ago

Heritage in the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts," President Theodore Roosevelt once said. "The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena." The Heritage Foundation has been in the arena for many years, fighting many battles, so it's no surprise that it has attracted many critics as well. And while Heritage cannot claim perfection, this much is certain: We have stayed true to our mission despite the critics;
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fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Republican Crack-Up Has Begun

Earlier this week, Gary Kendrick, a GOP council member in the red town of El Cajon, on San Diego's eastern outskirts, announced that he was crossing the aisle and joining the Democrats. Kendrick was the longest-serving Republican official in the region's local government. "I've been a Republican for 50 years," he said, in the statement explaining his action. "I just can't stand what the Republican Party has become. I'm formally renouncing the Republican Party."
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

American Dissidence

The word that comes to my mind is dissidence. If we want to understand why the whistleblowing, camera-wielding people of Minneapolis have caused the Trump administration-and Donald Trump himself-to flinch, I believe we need some added history, and a bigger map. What we've been watching is part of a long, established tradition-one that might help Americans unlock a different kind of future.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake

Rod Dreher emerged as an influential conservative voice shaping religious conservatives' cultural despair and advising figures like J.D. Vance within conservative media.
fromemptywheel
2 months ago

Regime Change By Patrick Deneen - emptywheel

The readings in my last series led me to see the genuine hatred conservatives have for what they call variously liberal hegemony, liberal ideology, left-wing ideology, and other names. David Brooks, newly ensconced at Yale and The Atlantic, is just sure it was liberals who caused Trump's wins, with their snotty "knowledge", and "refined tastes". I mocked this nonsense, but apparently Brooks was serious about the super bad feelings his people have about such things.
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fromwww.esquire.com
2 months ago

Maybe, Just Maybe, Universities Shouldn't Bend to MAGA's Whims

Universities that swiftly fire faculty over controversial social-media posts face reputational, legal, and financial consequences and sometimes must reinstate and compensate those faculty.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

What the Neocons Got Right

On this week's episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with his reflections on the recent shootings in Minneapolis. He argues that these killings, alongside ICE's warrantless home raids and mistaken detentions, and the reports of deaths in custody, are not isolated abuses but signs of a rapidly deepening crisis in American democracy, one in which basic rights and due process are applied unevenly and increasingly contested.
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fromAxios
2 months ago

Study finds younger Trump voters pushing a harder cultural edge

Generational change among Trump voters is shifting the coalition’s energy from policy consensus to cultural conflict, driven by economy, backlash to progressivism, and Trump’s tactics.
fromThe American Conservative
2 months ago

Trump's Adaptability Is a Virtue, Not a Vice

More than two decades ago, I semi-seriously proposed calling this website The American Conservative Online. My reasoning was twofold: 1) At that time, we ink-stained wretches were still somewhat in denial about this whole internet thing, so we liked to append "online" to our website titles. 2) The acronym would have been "TACO." The hilarity of publishing broadsides against George W. Bush's proposed immigration amnesties on something called TACO would have been hard to deny, but cooler heads prevailed.
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fromTruthout
2 months ago

Has US Fascism Moved From a Theoretical Debate Into an Urgent National Crisis?

Federal agents in Minnesota used increasingly violent tactics, prompting widespread outrage and fueling concerns about rising authoritarian practices under the Trump administration.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement

Ben Shapiro is a conservative provocateur. Ever since he was a teen-ager at U.C.L.A. writing op-eds for the Daily Bruin, he has shown a penchant for the rhetorical grenade. Women who have abortions are "baby killers." Western civilization is "superior" to other civilizations. "Israelis like to build," he tweeted in 2010. "Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock." Shapiro is now forty-two, and his rhetoric has mellowed only somewhat.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The 17th-Century Philosopher Who Helps Explain Stephen Miller

Political leaders align with either Lockean faith in citizens' reason and the common good or Hobbesian belief in human viciousness requiring strong authority, shaping governance.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Trump Isn't Losing the Culture War. But He's Not Winning, Either.

Sparklers sizzled, boom-badoom-boom bass thumped, and Nicki Minaj emerged onstage at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest last month to deliver the latest plot twist in an exhausting year for politics and pop culture. The rapper-whose straight black hair reached the hem of her sleek minidress-sat down with Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, who sported medieval-princess blond braids and waves. Then Minaj tore into previous presidential administrations for being un-Christian and uncool.
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fromThe American Conservative
2 months ago

The Trump Administration's NEH Agenda

On January 15, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $75.1 million for humanities projects across the country. Presented as part of President Donald Trump's January 25, 2025 executive order, "Celebrating America's Birthday," the move is the latest example of how the Trump administration is increasingly using federal funding as a vehicle to achieve its broader goals of reshaping higher education.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Why the white America Trump dreams of is just a fantasy

Stopping immigration cannot restore a predominantly white America; demographic trends ensure a shrinking non-Hispanic white population, and exclusionary policies will weaken the United States.
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