Postliberal modernity - from Fordism to Muskism

"This is a worldview in which the technocrat is king; which piggybacks on the state to achieve supremacy; and in which only a select few deserve salvation. "
Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff , Muskism, A Guide for the Perplexed, 2026 >>
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/muskism-9780241805114

Quinn Slobodian on New Fusionism, Libertarian Eugenics, and Far-Right Capitalism >>
https://www.illiberalism.org/quinn-slobodian-on-new-fusionism-libertarian-eugenics-and-far-right-capitalism/

Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff, A Global History of Elon Musk >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTC4nFObac

#Muskism #neoliberalism #Fordism #hierarchy #exclusion #AI #AutomationOfConsent #NewFusionism #IQFetishism #eugenics #xenophobia #misogyny #paleoconservatism #neoconservatism #FarRight #book

The death of 'America First' – Responsible Statecraft

The death of ‘America First’  Responsible StatecraftIs ‘America First’ starting to backfire as Washington’s allies go it alone?  CNBCTrump’s America…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AmericaFirst #MAGA #neoconservatism #neoconservatives #Republicans #Trump #USforeignpolicy #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/387667/

In the early 90s we had media like Dave and The West Wing, inspiring hope in the USA through, essentially, lying to us about how politics worked. Then in 1998 Warren Beatty gave us Bulworth, which made audiences feel... bad. It's not a perfect movie, but IMO it's a really good one. Its portrayal of the ugly underbelly of American #politics that rings as true now as it did then.

It did not do well at the box office, and I suspect the bizarre pairing of Warren Beatty (he wrote the thing) with Halle Berry was not the real issue--after all, Americans had no problem with geriatrics like Harrison Ford and Sean Connery hooking up with 20somethings in other films. No, I think it was this:

Conservatives hated it because it lionized #liberal values and showed the nastiness of corruption in Washington.

Liberals hated it because it showed us these things in the Democratic party.

The movie is about #Democrats. They're the bad guys. They're the slimebags. It's not a conservative film--the Democrat leaders are not bad because they're liberal; they're bad because they pretend to be #liberal while shoving #neoconservatism down America's throat.

Go watch this movie. Don't worry, it's very watchable (overlooking the weird grossness of Beatty with Halle Berry, who can do no wrong). It's got style, zing, good pacing, and tons of humor. It has multiple instances of Warren Beatty, sleep-deprived and stoned on street weed, trying to rap and doing exactly as horribly as you might imagine (I can forgive him the Halle Berry thing for being grown-up enough to lampoon his own ridiculous middle-aged white-guy-ness).

#movies #bulworth #politics #uspol #corruption #prescient

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118798

>#America is over #neoliberalism and #neoconservatism. Trump is not | Samuel Moyn | The Guardian<

https://share.google/iW5lWH2icojILLYbj

**Neoconservatism: A Roundtable**

"_ Emerging in the 1960s as a critique of the perceived leftward drift in liberal politics, neoconservatism—while broadly characterized by anti-communism, cultural conservatism, and commitment to liberal democracy—exhibited significant internal variations and shifts in focus._"

🔗 https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/07/30/neoconservatism-a-roundtable/.

#Neoconservatism #Politics #PoliticalScience @politicalscience

I’m more proud to be a neoconservative now than I was in the loftiest days of the second Bush administration. A little lonelier, sure, but as strange as it may sound, I’m hoping I’m hoping #ElonMusk and his #AmericaParty can bring America back to the party. https://ofb.biz/sa1333

#Neoconservatism #MAGA #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWBush

>>One would think by now that the neocons might know better than to get carried away with excitement over a new war in the Middle East.<<

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-neocons-iran-war/

#USPolitics #USIranWar #BillKristol #Neoconservatism #IranWar