Recommended Reading: How to Destroy Democracy and the Right’s War On America’s Children
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Recommended Reading: How to Destroy Democracy and the Right’s War On America’s Children
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Oliver Willis, Sara Petersen, John Pavlovitz, and Noah Berlatsky
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The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes “Discrediting a sitting democratically-elected government by depicting it as illegitimate, incompetent, tyrannical, or all three is a pillar of the right-wing authoritarian playbook. The specific outcome of this strategy has varied throughout history, but when it is successful, freedom is always its victim.”
writes that “The conservative movement has had America’s children in its crosshairs for decades and it long predates the openly crude and cruel rhetoric of Donald Trump. Trump wasn’t around in politics when Ronald Reagan singled out Black mothers for his attacks on ‘welfare queens.’ It wasn’t Trumpism that has pushed Republicans in Congress and the White House to push for cuts to health care, school lunch programs, and education.” writes that “it’s as a WIFE and as a MOTHER that I watched Katie Britt’s audition tape for Real Stepford Wives of Washington DC, and it’s as a WIFE and MOTHER that I found myself feeling worried about my children’s future (particularly my daughter Lakeview’s future).” writes that “I know the big, oversimplified lie is more convenient than the individual, complex truth. It's easier for you to tell yourself the story that all those crossing the border are inhuman, vicious, immoral predators whose only impulse is to sidestep the law and to pillage America.” writes that “The GOP wants to run on negative partisanship and Biden hate alone. To do so they try to evoke a magical, imaginary past that never happened. That’s, after all, what the slogan, ‘Make America Great Again’ has always meant.”
Thank you so much for sharing, Teddy!