The Plot Against Democracy: Barton Gellman’s Scoop on Trump’s Electoral Strategy
Barton Gellman’s Atlantic piece about Trump’s plan to break America is online. You should read it soon.
Fire on the Mountain (California Daymare)
When we woke up Tuesday morning, it was still night.
Suck it the Fuck Up
Kristi Coulter posted the following resonant comments on Facebook after RBG’s passing…
Quick Q for all the straight, non-disabled white guys who are posting “RIP America” and “Here comes Gilead” and otherwise rolling over and playing dead tonight: what’s it like to be so fucking weak?
Stanley Crouch Faces the Music
Stanley Crouch died today. We hadn’t been in touch much the past few years. I’d heard he was sick. I don’t know the ailment. I’m sad and shocked. Sad. I always liked him. We got along. I don’t know why. People like you, and you think okay, I like you too.
Stanley Crouch & The All-American Skin Game
Late in his life Amiri Baraka once mused that he knew he was old because he’d begun to feel sad when his enemies died. Their obits reminded him of passionate struggles in his past and made the present seem like a diminished thing. Baraka didn’t outlive Stanley Crouch but I bet he’d’ve felt bummed to know another one of his contras had split. In the case of Crouch, though, Baraka’s sadness might’ve been deepened since Crouch offered him more than an olive branch before both of them departed.
Not that cultural powers-that-be took that in…
Rittenhouse, Homegrown Fascism & the Midwest Consensus
Kyle Rittenhouse scares me in part because I don’t understand him. He isn’t like the racist or incel mass shooters of recent memory.
I Know Words. I Have the Best Words. Stupid. (Trumpery & “The Language of the Third Reich”)
Dennis Myers conceived of this essay on/adaption of Victor Klemperer’s work last year. Myers and your editor chose to hold off posting it until this year’s Republican Convention.
Biopolitics (Fascism 2020)
Fascism has always been with the species.