Recommended Reading: Fascists Hate When You Call Them Fascists, and the Fascist War on Trans Rights
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Jared Yates Sexton, Jessica Valenti, Parker Molloy, Tal Lavin, Michael Hobbes, Virginia Heffernan, Brian Kaylor, and Beau Underwood.
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
Jared Yates Sexton writes that “Trump has been caught in multiple crimes. If we are to have a system of law these egregious offenses must be addressed. To do anything else is to merely allow this movement to hold the country hostage, and that will escalate into more crimes, more antidemocratic activities, and, in the long run, more bloodshed and chaos.”
Jessica Valenti reports that “political director of Texas Right to Life, the state’s largest and oldest anti-abortion organization, has been been arrested for solicitation of a minor. Luke Bowen has deleted his Twitter, removed his picture from LinkedIn—presumably because it matches the released mugshot—and taken down any mention of Texas Right to life on his LinkedIn work history.”
Parker Molloy writes that “all this performative outrage is boring and repetitive.”
Tal Lavin and Michael Hobbes discuss the right-wing narrative that the “biggest threat to American society was the fact that people—particularly young people—are embracing trans identities.”
Virginia Heffernan writes that “it’s misleading that the mentor says you ‘wake up’ with the blue pill and remain in ‘Wonderland’ with the red. In the idiom of today, it’s the reverse: Blue-pilled people are seen to live in cushy contentment, but asleep and blind to the cold realities of the world. Red-pilled people, by contrast, can see the cold realities, chiefly that liberals are satanic.”
Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood write that “compared to Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and other Fox luminaries, Todd Starnes is far from a household name. But even on a network known for pushing conservative ideology over hard news, some of the opinions and positions staked out by Starnes turned heads.”