Steuern die #USA auf einen Bürgerkrieg zu?
Die Trump-Regierung sieht in weiten Teilen der eigenen Bevölkerung den inneren Feind. Gegen den wendet sie sich: um das vermeintlich wahre #Amerika zu verteidigen.
Ein Gastbeitrag von #ThomasZimmer
#dieZeit #DonaldTrump #Politischegeographie #politicalgeography

@geography

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-06/proteste-donald-trump-usa-spaltung-buergerkrieg

Proteste in Los Angeles: Steuern die USA auf einen Bürgerkrieg zu?

Die Trump-Regierung sieht in weiten Teilen der eigenen Bevölkerung den inneren Feind. Gegen den wendet sie sich: um das vermeintlich wahre Amerika zu verteidigen.

ZEIT ONLINE

#ThomasZimmer
#DemocracyAmericana

The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis

The MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists is not surprising, but it remains outrageous. If democracy is to prevail, America needs to establish a robust anti-fascist consensus

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-american-government-sides-with

#us #usa #kleptocrat #fascist #sectarian #racist #billionaire #looter #terror #maffiastate

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis

The MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists is not surprising, but it remains outrageous. If democracy is to prevail, America needs to establish a robust anti-fascist consensus

Democracy Americana

#ThomasZimmer #DemocracyAmericana

How the Republic Falls

Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.” Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-the-republic-falls

#us #usa #democracy #constitution #authoritarianism
#trump #musk #thiel #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter #terror #maffiastate

How the Republic Falls

Constitutional protections suspended. The government purging “alien enemies” and the “enemy within.” Three months into Trumpist rule, despotism is rising in America

Democracy Americana
#Lesenswert !
Man muss mit dem Schlimmsten rechnen
Selbst pessimistische Beobachter unterschätzten die Geschwindigkeit und das Ausmaß von Trumps Angriff auf die Demokratie. Nun ist in den USA wirklich alles denkbar.
Sehr guter Beitrag von #ThomasZimmer in der #diezeit #donaldtrump #USA #trumpCoup
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/us-regierung-donald-trump-verfassung-demokratie-autoritarismus
In Kurzform hatte ich selbst ja schon ähnliches im letzten Oktober in dem kleinen Blogbeitrag "America where are you going" befürchtet
https://cneffpaysages.blog/2024/10/27/blognotice-27-10-2024-america-where-are-you-going/
US-Regierung unter Donald Trump: Man muss mit dem Schlimmsten rechnen

Selbst pessimistische Beobachter unterschätzten die Geschwindigkeit und das Ausmaß von Trumps Angriff auf die Demokratie. Nun ist in den USA wirklich alles denkbar.

ZEIT ONLINE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lYeaGlNLAs

#RefuseFascism

#Episode237 Unprecedented: #SashaAbramsky & #ThomasZimmer on the Crisis We Face

Sasha , author of #ChaosComesCalling, discusses the rapid ascent of #fascism, emphasising the dehumanisation of vulnerable populations, the role of propaganda, and the transformation of govt.

Thomas, co-host of the #IsThisDemocracypodcast, and historian, discusses the qualitative transformation of the U.S. govt over the course of the last month.

Ep 237 Unprecedented: Sasha Abramsky & Thomas Zimmer on the Crisis We Face

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This piece by @tzimmer_history is definitely worth reading.

The far right occupiers of the Republican party don't get to just say they represent 'real' Americans if they're gonna be so #weird.

Also Good stuff on #civility as a ruse and how the moderate right, while welcome to hang with the Democrats, should not think that they're welcome to redefine what the entire Democratic coalition represents.

#uspol #politics #longreads #ThomasZimmer

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-is-weird-and-what-is-normal

What is “weird” and what is “normal” in America?

Democrats are, finally, asserting their right to define the boundaries of normalcy – and their claim to be defending the nation’s true ideals against the reactionary assault

Democracy Americana
UC Berkeley law professor John C. Yoo should be persona non grata, but if you quote him, you should always identify him as the author of the torture memos. #111Words #JohnCYoo #TortureMemos #ThomasZimmer #NewYorkTimes #DonaldTrump https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/06/uc-berkeley-law-professor-john-c-yoo.html
UC Berkeley law professor John C. Yoo should be persona non grata, but if you quote him, you should always identify him as the author of the torture memos

In a Substack post today on "The Right's Politics of Revenge", historian Thomas Zimmer summarized what Donald Trump supporters said after h...

"The same circles who have been presenting themselves as uncompromising fighters for free speech, imploring us to understand that speech must not be curtailed just because you (on the Left!) may disagree with it, are now fully on board with speech they don’t like being suppressed by the state.”

#ThomasZimmer #StudentProtests #FreeSpeech

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/student-revolt-and-the-curtailing

Student Revolt and the Curtailing of Critical Speech

The violent crackdown on campus protests reveals an alliance between the Right and mainstream elites who are driven by reactionary impulses and status anxieties

Democracy Americana
'On the empirical level, the “polarization” narrative gets the diagnosis of the current situation wrong; on the historical level, it indulges an ahistorical nostalgia for a golden age that never existed and distorts the recent past into an inadequate tale of decline; and on the normative level, the “polarization” paradigm privileges unity, stability, and social cohesion over social justice and equal participation.’ https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-treacherous-allure-of-the-polarization #USA #Politics #Polarization #ThomasZimmer
The Treacherous Allure of the “Polarization” Dogma

On the limits and pitfalls of a narrative that obscures more than it illuminates – A Manifesto, Part I

Democracy Americana

Hi @adriandaub,

(1/n) #TESCREAL--the dangerous billionaires' philosophy

I listened to your fascinating interview (1) with #ThomasZimmer. (1)
Also, I had a brief look at your #Wikipedia entry.

When I read in the shownotes that this was about your book, which I haven't read, "What Tech Calls Thinking" is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual..
(1)
Is This Democracy:
25. The Ideology of #SiliconValley vs the Idea of Democracy – with #AdrianDaub

https://i.sonnet.fm/RQFbqC2AHnRZ6jWY6

Is This Democracy / Sonnet

Welcome to Is This Democracy, the podcast where we discuss the ongoing conflict over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America. Hosted by...