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“The rise of rightwing politics and authoritarianism and of armed groups preparing for violent action is an even greater problem than Biden’s speech suggests and neither mainstream Democrats, nor progressives, nor the left, seems to have a strategy to stop the rise of the right.”
On January 6, (...)
On the anniversary of the storming of the Capitol in Washington, Neil Faulkner assesses the strength of the authoritarian right in the United States.
No-one should be in any doubt that it was a coup attempt. It may have been botched, but the storming of the Capitol and the invasion of Congress (...)
“Was the American far right’s apparent success the result of a possible Trump effect? No post-1945 Western democracy has so far witnessed four years of presidency by an allegedly far-right figure. His support might have changed the dynamics, and organized an erstwhile scattered and incoherent far (...)
The Republican Party has gone wacko! The evidence is overwhelming: Some of their members call Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol a tourist visit. They tolerate Marjorie Taylor Greene’s QAnon, Anti-Semitism, Space Lasers etc. They are trying to re-run the 2020 election after it has been settled for 6 (...)
Revealed: groups banned from other sites fundraising on GiveSendGo as data breach identifies high-dollar donors
A data breach from Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has revealed that millions of dollars have been raised on the site for far-right causes and groups, many of whom are banned (...)
Contrary to many expectations President Trump was unable to launch a coup d’etat in order to remain in power. The January 6, 2021 putsch against the U.S. Capitol demonstrated that violent fascists pose an ongoing threat to the left and to protest movements. However, the opposition of the entire (...)
Despite national failures at the ballot box, radicalised state parties are fighting for Trump’s election lies and defending QAnon followers.
In Arizona and Oregon, they rebuked opponents of Donald Trump’s assault on democracy. In Hawaii, they defended followers of the QAnon conspiracy movement. (...)
We want to start by thanking Cihan Tuğal for his thoughtful and comradely response to the Spectre statement on the invasion of the US Capitol building on January 61 ]]. His was the sort of response we had hoped for. He grappled with our actual arguments, not “straw people,” and his contribution (...)
The editors of Spectre have responded to the invasion of the Congress with an editorial call to antifascist mass organization . This fresh voice is important precisely because many on the left (or on its borders, such as liberals) believe leaderless direct action, electoral work, and small (...)
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This was a “coup” as social media spectacle. In their pseudo-Viking gear and Confederate patches, the far-right rebels were a distinctly unappealing lot. And their rebellion utterly lacked a coherent plan beyond smashed windows and selfies. It could not think beyond its loyalty to the liar in (...)
The attempted coup to overturn the election in the mass riots and invasion of the Capital Building to prevent Congress counting the Electoral College results, was prepared months in advance.
Before the November 3 election, Trump repeatedly whipped up his tens of millions of followers with the (...)
The violent storming of the Capitol by a Trumpian mob underlines the face of things to come.
REALITY FOLLOWS PREDICTION, BUT IN THE WILDEST WAY IMAGINABLE. I sent this piece yesterday, then a few hours later, reality unfolded as I had anticipated. But I am not a fortune teller. What occurred (...)
The fact that today’s desperate effort to subvert liberal constitutional law will probably fizzle out, largely reflects the inchoate state of this phase of fascism’s development.
What we’ve been seeing over the last few years are speculative attempts, experimental forays, laying the cultural and (...)
Yesterday’s riot of Trump supporters at the US Capitol will likely be a radicalizing event for the far right. We shouldn’t underestimate their ability to cause more death and destruction in the aftermath.
What happened yesterday? In one sense, it’s easy to say. Trump supporters, many of them (...)
The nature of the American right was ill-understood during the Trump regime. The word “fascist” frequently circulated in liberal and left-wing circles. Yet, the only potential fascist was ousted from the White House before the Trump administration turned one. Now, the risk is forgetting that we (...)
Trump is urging his supporters to turn to One America News Network as his romance with Fox News sours
For some time now, and particularly since his election loss, the romance between Donald Trump and Fox News has appeared to be souring. The president has depicted Fox News’s actions on election (...)
Theories of modern fascism need to be updated to show its American origins, the centrality of racism, and how it needs to be defeated in the streets.
The presidency of Donald Trump has helped relegitimize domestic fascist ideas largely confined to the fringes of American politics for the last (...)
Signalling to his base, as he did referring to the Proud Boys on Tuesday, the president is following a playbook from 1930s Germany.
You can imagine the men as they prepared for the showdown. For days, the papers had been predicting a “great sensation”. Press photographers besieged the entrance. (...)
Trump’s pick is a member of a ‘covenant community’ that faces claims of a ‘highly authoritarian’ structure.
Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the supreme court, to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has drawn attention to a secretive Catholic “covenant community” called People of Praise (...)
Putting a member of a “covenant” community on the high court would raise a whole new set of questions about religion and the Constitution.
Amy Coney Barrett has risen to the top of President Donald Trump’s short list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Supreme Court. A Roman (...)
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