johnshuntington.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Far-Right Vanguard. Community college prof.
You can read about my leukemia journey here: https://johnshuntington.substack.com/
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"we tried a coup, failed, but faced no consequences; we can do whatever we want and everyone else in political life will bend over backwards to make it legitimate after the fact" is their theory of the world and so far has not been wrong
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I've seen her pop up once or twice, but it definitely feels like she's taken a step back even more than last time around.
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I just woke up to put my toddler back down and my brain clicked on. I ended up writing an outline for an article I'm working on.
Sometimes the wee hours are weirdly productive.
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The thread in question: bsky.app/profile/john...
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And they still won't, but they're certain that you have to keep listening to them.
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Hey John, I didn't know you'd made the move over to Bluesky. Good to see you here.
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That's one reason why it was so irritating when Moyn, Bessner, and company derided their fascism-debate opposition as immature hysterics: it's the same argument conservatives have used to dismiss and belittle left-wing critiques for years!
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Weird how this sort of scolding never cuts the other way when conservatives demonize Democrats as communists or totalitarians!
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It's an amusing inversion since the Rufo-types claim that the *left* are the ones who dogmatically follow a particular ideology.
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Yep! They literally put their exact plans out for public consumption.
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Also, most of the "billionaire turds" are decidedly on one side of the political aisle.
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Pretty sure Dan Bessner was part of this brigade as well.
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It's one of my favorite games of all time, but FFVI is a great one, too. I didn't have a SNES at the time, so I went back and played both during the N64 era.
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If the Dems really wanted to connect to the American public they'd more vocally challenge billionaires and corporate power
they're too feckless to do that, so you get this weird, vague performance art instead
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The Democratic base is *furious* and Democratic politicians are platforming far-right activists.
Unreal.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about.
bsky.app/profile/bill...
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The argument of this excellent book by @johnshuntington.bsky.social is that we should think of "the far right" not as the irrelevant "fringe" of the conservative movement, but as the generative vanguard of where that movement would eventually head. www.google.com/books/editio...
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This is a great example of the asymmetry of political politesse.
For years the liberal-left has bent over backwards to insist that all views must be heard, however noxious. Conservatives benefit from this politeness and then gladly stomp on liberals when given the chance.
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The way American society genuflects to excessive wealth is disgusting.
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Democratic politicians, staying on Twitter: "Wow, the country is a lot more Nazi than I thought. I guess we'll have to shift the party further rightward."
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If we stop funding NIH, we have fewer medical breakthroughs.
Not only would this weaken America's standing as a medical research powerhouse, but it also leads to more death. Plain and simple.
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Blina was funded by numerous NIH grants.
My wife did a quick search through the NIH funding spreadsheet and found over *TWO DOZEN* different studies on Blina that were funded by the NIH.
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I am currently taking a drug called Blinatumomab (brand name Blincyto) for leukemia. This drug has been a major development in leukemia treatment because it's not as hard on the body as chemotherapy.
www.bbc.com/news/health-...