Thomas Zimmer16h ago

ICYMI over the Easter weekend:

I wrote about why Murray Rothbard and Francis Fukuyama are crucial context for the Right’s assault on birthright citizenship, about how we conceptualize progress in history, and about the possibility of democratic change:

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/0999474f-9069-4edc-8afa-14ba857741fa

No Right Is Ever Safe – but Progress Is Possible

The outrageous assault on birthright citizenship should prompt us to reflect on the fragility of democratic progress - and our own responsibility to defend it

Steady
Show threadThomas Zimmer16h ago

“We shall repeal the twentieth century”: That’s how self-identified “radical reactionary” Murray Rothbard described the Right’s vision in 1992.

This really is the core goal of the radical Right: Roll back whatever racial and social progress has been achieved over the past century and a half.

Show threadThomas Zimmer16h ago
It sounds outlandish. To most people who aren’t professionally obligated to analyze the extreme Right, it must seem bizarre that anyone would really be devoted to such a brutally retrograde idea. But that’s where we are: No right, nothing the mainstream would consider “progress” is safe.
Show threadCrispy Gnome Chomsky11h ago
@tzimmer_history I get that human and reproductive rights and vaccines are on the cutting block, but will we be allowed to keep antibiotics, internal combustion engines, and bicycles?
Show threadAccordionBruce

@rose @tzimmer_history
Bicycles are a wedge issue in Canadian right wing politics, where abortion and gun control have mostly been off the table

So don’t get comfortable

The issue is not important

Trans-rights only became a target after abortion got checked off their list

Once they ban vaccines, who knows where they’ll go

8:22pmToot!