"And Jimmy Carter's commercials showed him in flannel shirts!" - RICK PERLSTEIN, American Ivy: Chapter 5, Articles of Interest #ArticlesofInterest #AoI #NationalFlannelDay #RickPerlstein
Blood in the Face: White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump

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#MaxBlumenthal 🤜 💥#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/

#USPolitics

What Will You Do?

Life-changing choices we may be forced to make if Donald Trump wins

The American Prospect

[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"

#RickPerlstein #conservatism #history

Know Your Enemy: The Infernal Triangle - Dissent Magazine

Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein explains what Democrats and the media are (still) getting wrong about the threat from Trump and the far right.

Dissent Magazine

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/

Who Are the ‘Undecided’?

It may not be about issues, but whether voters surrender to Trump’s invitation to return to the womb.

The American Prospect

#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."

#Fascism #Infantilism #Trump #USPolitics

Who Are the ‘Undecided’?

It may not be about issues, but whether voters surrender to Trump’s invitation to return to the womb.

The American Prospect

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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Historian Rick Perlstein on Trump’s Grip on the GOP

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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/
First They Came for Harvard

The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.

The American Prospect