Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
right-wing-populism.pdf
rothbard.it... See moreRather than trying to restore an elusive consensus, I propose that we strengthen institutions of contestation. Our problem, in other words, is not that we have forgotten how much Americans have in common, but that we have undermined or abandoned structures and organizations that express and embody disagreement. Political parties, labor unions, and
An Ecological Technology – with James Bridle
emergencemagazine.org
the importance of horizontal, rather than vertical structures; the need for initiatives to rise up from relatively small, self-organized, autonomous groups rather than being conveyed downwards through chains of command; the rejection of permanent, named leadership structures
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archetypal features of fascist movements—things like “nostalgia for a purer, mythic, often rural past; cults of tradition and cultural regeneration … the universalizing of some groups as authentically national, while dehumanizing all other groups … anti-modernism; fetishized patriarchal masculinity.”
Laura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
His work is utterly Schmittian, and for him the enemy is the contemporary liberal regime, which he prefers to call, echoing BAP, “gynocracy.” Wolfe writes: “We live under a gynocracy—a rule of women. This may not be apparent on the surface, since men still run many things. But the governing virtues of America are feminine vices, associated with
... See moreLaura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
7M is a Charismatic, Pentecostal variation on Dominion Theology that delineates the seven distinctive “mountains” that are ripe for Christian takeover and control: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government. This is the Charismatic version of Yarvin’s destruction of the Cathedral and “Retire All Government
... See moreLaura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
Citing studies from 2022, Taylor writes: Belief in modern-day prophecy—and particularly, belief in prophecies about Donald Trump—was both strongly correlated with belief in Trump’s claims of election fraud and a major accelerant for extreme political views, including an openness to supporting violence or lawbreaking in the pursuit of political
... See moreLaura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
Further, Taylor writes, “Independent Charismatic communities are the epicenter of Christian Trumpism.”26