feolski.bsky.social
Dad. Political Theorist. Writes on white nationalism, the far right, critical theory. Author: The Rage of Replacement (2024, UMN Press). Words at The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian.
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3. These are the dark questions of political psychology. Not how people manage to set aside their dread, carry on, and normalize the deeply dysfunctional -- but how large numbers can find pleasure/joy in a movement that harms, breaks, humiliates, and abandons so many. That is the question now.
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2. What about those who revel in the dismantling of all the systems and safety nets of a functioning democratic society? What about those who suffer, but who bray for more because "their guy" is sticking it to "the other guys" even worse? What about those who cheer for elite predation?
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Also, I wrote a whole damn book on this! How the fantasy of white replacement/genocide/extermination has come to mobilize the ongoing upsurge/expansion of the far right. www.amazon.com/Rage-Replace...
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4. ... and progressive visions that could be tapped to build coalitions against reactionary malice and ruthless capital. There are plenty of those energies out there, if the Dems could reach down from their gerontocratic heights. A pied piper with a podcast mic ain't the magic key to it all.
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3. But the point: in trying to find the one voice that would turn the tides, the Dems are (again) committing the same blunder that led them to think a Taylor/Clooney/Beyonce endorsement would carry the election. It's not about the figurehead. It's about the long, slow investment in smaller publics
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2. It channels a wide range of subcultures: male supremacists, the MMA/fitness world, white reaction, science skeptics, conspiracy theorists, garden variety reactionaries, tech fetishists, the AM radio conservative rage circuit, those who thought Jackass was the best thing ever, and so many more.