Nick Fuentes called Alex Pretti a “race traitor” for opposing ICE. I argue that sentiment is actually widespread on the MAGA right. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...

In this vein, my column bsky.app/profile/asel...

"At home, U.S. political commentators continue to obsess over hypothetical Republican “red lines” and Trump’s flagging poll numbers. This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in." There is no avoiding the fight.

“At home, U.S. political commentators continue to obsess over hypothetical Republican “red lines” and Trump’s flagging poll numbers. This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in.” Alan dropping bars today.

A great framework to have going forward. It's not about going back to pre-2016 America because not only is that world dead and buried, but it also produced the conditions that GAVE us Trump to begin with. We must begin anew, both domestically and abroad and that is scary but hopeful all at once.

"It’s clear that none of these [Republicans] imagine anything like a post-Trump politics, even if the man himself should exit the stage. Trump could well die in the Oval Office, but he’s never really leaving." Yup. The old Normal is gone, the new and updated Bad Old Days are here to stay.

Great piece that really reaches at the dark spot I think we are in this current moment. It’s gonna be long road to get where we need to go beyond just “vote the bastards out” there is a serious rot taken place constitutionally/electorally and we need to take it seriously.

Read my latest! Sorry in advance, but it is not, in fact, adult content. Or maybe the death of the world as we know it counts idk

“At home, U.S. political commentators continue to obsess over hypothetical Republican ‘red lines’ and Trump’s flagging poll numbers. This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in.” This article is deeply accurate 🔥

Must read:

“This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in. “

Thing of it is: belief that we can return to *any* pre-<thing> world is a poison that rots us all. We've only got moving forward, folks.

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away. And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule. My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

You can find the article in question, "After Trump, the Flood," at the top of our homepage: www.liberalcurrents.com

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"Americans must accommodate themselves to what could well be decades where we are viewed by the free nations of the world as, at best, a reckless and unreliable partner and, at worst, a kind of global villain." www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality. Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves. www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds. So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

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Censoring Kimmel, which happened after I filed this essay, and censoring the past are of a kind with each other. Trump and MAGA clearly want to stifle any voice, any narrative that isn’t theirs.

The Trump administration’s decision to remove depictions of slavery from National Historic Parks isn’t just about revising history. It’s about reshaping America. Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

We're putting on our second Pulaski Institution Summit this October 4, feat. speakers like @jesspish.bsky.social, @mcpli.bsky.social, @kjephd.bsky.social, @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, @shortle.bsky.social, and more! We’re really grateful our speakers donate their time and expertise to do this!

Hello, I am furious www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

In my head @stephenking.bsky.social, Emmanuel Macron, and Angela Saini were all separate dinner companions. But tbh all together would also be great

My very first feature. Absolutely stoked to have it be in the @arktimes.bsky.social

I wrote about the Kristi Noem’s El Salvador prison video and its relationship to the horrific practice of lynching postcards. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...

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"Trump's actions should be understood as part of a dangerous psychology that, combined with his fundamental assumptions about the world, makes his expansionist talk something to be taken seriously." Via @aselrod.bsky.social, the imperialist threats aren't a joke www.arcdigital.media/p/hes-not-jo...

I wrote about how both Trump’s psychology and the nature of fascism require we take his expansionist talk seriously. www.arcdigital.media/p/hes-not-jo...

I wrote about the Tampa Bay Young Republicans inviting Andrew Tate to speak and the relationship between rape and the authoritarian right. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...

Check out the latest episode of The Periphery from the @pulaskiinstitution.bsky.social. I talked to @itsmebenmarsh.substack.com about Christian nationalism and a range of other issues confronting the evangelical right. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I had @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social on the @pulaskiinstitution.bsky.social podcast to talk about how our current crisis compares to the 1920s and 30s, the fascism debate, and Germany’s new far right Listen wherever you get your podcasts! theperipheryfrompulaski.buzzsprout.com/1845543/epis...

Listen to @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social on The Periphery from The @pulaskiinstitution.bsky.social talk about Trump, how democracy dies, and the appeal of the far right in America and Germany theperipheryfrompulaski.buzzsprout.com/1845543/epis...

"Trump is the master of grievance and animus precisely because he himself is an exposed nerve of status anxiety. No one articulates this sense of injury quite like him because perhaps no one is as covetous, spiteful, and achingly needy as he is."

My latest at @thebulwark.bsky.social is maybe the argument I think is most important for understanding both Trump and much of our moment in general.

While “status” comprises a number of signs of economic success—homes, jobs, bank accounts—it's a relative measure, and it goes beyond hard economics to include important intangibles. This is key. @aselrod.bsky.social on Trump's secret weapon:

Read my latest, a very small treatise on how status anxiety shapes and drives Trumpism, at @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-secr...

I’m up at @thebulwark.bsky.social today making an argument I’ve believed in for some years now: status anxiety is the master key to Trumpism. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-secr...

Some Inauguration Day food for thought

"For a whole cohort of younger voters, Trump and Trumpism are how they came to politics. For some, they’re what they prefer. For others, they’re merely an unwelcome reality of American democracy. But in either case, he is their normal."

We’re closing in on a decade with Trump as the dominant figure in GOP politics. After this term, it’ll be 14 years of Trump being either the candidate or the main background reality to every election. That much time has generational consequences, as I argue at MSNBC www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump is a dire threat to American democracy. But, for a whole generation of voters, he’s entirely normal. My first for MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

In the roundup: An effort to protect LGBTQ+ Idahoans, the consequences of Medicaid cuts for rural America, and Elon Musk wades back into the U.K. riots open.substack.com/pub/alanelro...

I share the concern of scholars like Hanson and Kopstein about America’s democracy sliding into pre-modern, anti-democratic forms. But I also wanted to highlight a place where this problem has long troubled American politics: the sheriff. www.arcdigital.media/p/americas-l...

“…the ideas being offered from the hard-liners of the U.S. right are part of an interlocking vision of both the family and the nation that is predominantly white, Christian, reproductively healthy, and morally chaste.” My latest at @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/09/r...

The global right claims to be pro-family, but in many cases this is circumscribed to a particular kind of healthy, white, heterosexual ideal. Read my latest at @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/09/r...

From attacks on IVF to an obsession with declining birth rates to the continued assault on LGBTQ+ rights, the global right is putting the family at the center. I wrote about it at @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/09/r...

I grew up in a Protestant tradition that once shunned elections and political power. Now, two members are spearheading the use of government for right-wing ends. I wrote about it for Arc Digital open.substack.com/pub/arcdigi/...

Absolutely thrilled to announce that @shortle.bsky.social has joined @pulaskiinstitution.bsky.social as our newest fellow! Meet her and our other fellows here: www.pulaskiinstitution.org/staff