Recommended Reading: How to Kill Democracy and the Cult Around the Corner
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Jessica Valenti, Justin Ling, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucian Truscott, Ari Drennen, and Derek Beres
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes that “one of the country’s most powerful anti-choice organizations wants Ohio Republicans to redefine ‘abortion’ in the state’s law as a way to neutralize the pro-choice amendment.” writes that “even amid a new global renaissance for conspiracy theories, it’s been a tough few years to be a paranoid weirdo. With publicity comes attention, and it’s getting to be that you can’t warn of the coming race war or fly your WWG1WGA Pepe The Frog flag in public anywhere.”Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes that the “recruiting of enablers and accomplices of future state persecution is taking place before our eyes. If Trump returns to the White House, we cannot say we were not warned. He is telling us clearly that he will finish the job he started in his first term: wrecking U.S. democracy.”
writes that “We won’t be a nation of laws. We will be a nation with armed soldiers in the streets and razor-wire camps waiting to imprison anyone who opposes Donald Trump.” writes “there are schools where teachers will not automatically out a student to their parents, and there’s a really good reason for that. Information about your child that you might approach with curiosity and empathy, far too many parents approach in a way that is dangerous to their own child.” writes that the “modern incarnation of the manosphere positions men—mostly, though not exclusively, white men—as oppressed and powerless agents in an increasingly feminized and woke society.”