Recommended Reading: On Fascism, Authoritarianism, and Cruelty

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Parker Molloy, Anand Giridharadas, Ari Drennen, Scot Nakagawa, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and David Neiwert

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:

Parker Molloy writes that “this is what the mainstreaming of hate looks like in Trump's America — not as some grand ideological project, but as something closer to a fashion trend. It becomes cool to be cruel, trendy to be transgressive. The actual humans harmed by this behavior become abstract concepts, their pain dismiss…