I think I might have shared this here before now. Even if I have, it's worth doing so again:
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Very good.
These lessons cannot be taught enough at the moment.
Tim Snyder is also worth reading/listening to, as was Hannah Arendt who nearly ended up being carted off to a concentration camp herself.
Robert Reich on Substack and also Heather Cox Richardson, on US politics and society.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-138850988?source=queue
Snyder is superb and his series of lectures on Ukrainian (and Russian) history are essential to understand what is happening today, and the long and continuing history of Russian imperialism and colonialism. Available as podcasts or YouTubes
https://open.spotify.com/show/0gwIT6SlDmPVdjAnN6NHft
Plus of course Anne Applebaum
Good advice, PSR. I wholeheartedly agree.
I’ve been reading a lot of Robert Reich on Substack recently. One of the sharpest political minds in the USA, as well as the most engaging. Recommended!
These presentations useful to me aiding and sorting my thoughts. I find Trump, in this example, so repusive that I can miss the clever ways in which he (and his advisors) seek to manipulate us.
Without the knowledge gleaned and clarified from sources like this my dislike of his kind would only make me as bad as them.
Reich calls Trump out succinctly with evidence. There can be no doubt that Trump is a dangerous Fascist. Reich is also of the view that Trump won’t get re-elected and is a strong Biden supporter. My sense is that Biden has a lot to do to secure a second term. The crisis is Palestine is pivotal.
Furthermore Johnson and Farage, to name just two UK politicians endorse him.
proto-fascists in the UK e.g. Farage, we saw the followers at the Cenotaph last Saturday, all they need is a someone who gets to the top of the political tree …
In similar vein, but bang up to date, this clip is Ari Melber talking to Prof Tim Schneider about Trump the Fascist following the leak of video from the prosecution case in Georgia. https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber (Secret Coup Video: see Trump aides flip on Trump in RICO sessions in GA).
Thanks
Good recommendations. Though I worry that they may be too close to echoing my own prejudices.
Can I add Matthew Yglesias and Slow Boring on Substack.
His recent article on Palestine made me think again, which is always good if painful.
He makes an important distinction between the Palestinian Cause and the Palestinian People. Over 5 million Palestinians are already refugees. Advocating the Palestinian Cause is an easy liberal option, because it leaves someone else to solve the refugee problem. A humanitarian solution for the Palestinian People would leave a lot of countries with unpopular decisions. Easier to stick to the Palestinian Cause and pass the parcel on the refugees.
(I sign up for emails with selected articles, but I can’t see an easy link to his Substack article.)
Fascism is society’s ‘permafrost’ always there waiting for someone to thaw it out and resurrect it .
Apropos of which, I wonder how many of the people wanting to remove human rights and other protections from asylum seekers realise that those protections will also be removed for them? A classic fascist trick, surely – to get people to vote for their own enslavement by voting for enslavement of the ‘others’.
I’m ashamed to say I did not twig this for myself today until I heard about the Rwanda decision.