J. Nathan Matias 🦣Dec 8, 2024

Watching the Ken Burns documentary on the Dust Bowl, I am struck by how the history of the United States can be traced through a sequence of epic speculations, scams, and crashes.

This country is so much more, but it is forever scamming, forever being scammed, and forever trying to remediate the consequences. The hope and optimism that make us so capable and future-thinking also make us endlessly vulnerable.

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@natematias A friend had this sort of thing as their take on "Is Trump a fascist?" -- that no, Trump's not a fascist, tho plenty of people in his orbit and shadow are or are trying to be, but Trump himself is a /huckster/, which although it can find a lot of strategic overlap with and have many of the dangers of fascism, has a different appeal and makes different plays and plays on different mythologies.
Dec 9, 2024 at 12:15amWeb