#HatmarketBooks 3 months ago
#BloodInTheFace: #WhiteNationalism From #BirthOfANation to the Era of Trump
Guests: #DavidNeiwert, #JeanCassella, #RickPerlstein
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/
[solutions] Know Your Enemy: The Infernal Triangle
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-the-infernal-triangle
* historian/journalist Rick Perlstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perlstein
* what Democrats, media get wrong re: threat f. Trump/far right
"Infernal Triangle" destroying U.S. democracy
https://therealnews.com/the-infernal-triangle-destroying-us-democracy
* Rick Perlstein’s column examines how Republicans, Democrats, hapless media created perfect storm of political crisis
* Politico: "chronicler extraordinaire of modern conservatism"
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/
#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."
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
3/10
DemocracyNow 22 January 2023
#Historian #RickPerlstein on #TrumpsGripOnTheGOP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZfedaGD5fE