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larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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Checking in with the mental acuity and material interests of the working class candidate

submitted 33 minutes ago • 3 comments

Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

submitted 18 hours ago • 96 comments

This is 100%. Almost everything in the constitution is general or implied. The document literally says there's going to be a post office and congress is in charge of setting it up, deciding what it's rules are.

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 5 hours ago • 301 comments

What a fucked-up framing from the #BrokenPost. Trump is surrendering Ukraine and the West to Putin but here the burden is on Zelensky to "salvage his relationship." Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine? wapo.st/4it7ZS3

submitted 11 hours ago • 55 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 11 hours ago • 225 comments

Every time I see a headline like this, I check to see whether it was Maggie or Swan bylined.

submitted 10 hours ago • 20 comments

"The crowd again started shouting “tax Elon,” “tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich” and “tax the billionaires.” " www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 20 hours ago • 43 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 3 days ago • 1464 comments

Imagine how news media would respond if it was Harris saying this after a dozen eggs topped $8 nationally

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

submitted 21 hours ago • 95 comments

The NYT just described Trump firing the Black four-star general who was the senior officer of the entire US military as reflecting Trump’s “insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues”. Translation: Trump thinks only white men are qualified to be in charge.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 21 hours ago • 249 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 21 hours ago • 132 comments

Blue tea party vibes building

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

Trump's 1776 Commission condemned the Progressives, its biggest targets, because they elevated experts to making decisions taking the proper function of government away from legislators and "even constitutions." No surprise that this is precisely the power that Trump is claiming via Musk and DOGE.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is how dictators talk.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

More for the "every accusation is a confession" files.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There is very daylight between the "unitary executive theory" and Trump's assertion that he is a King, who can interpret the law--and even violate it--as he sees fit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

One element of DOGE that hasn't been discussed, enough in my view, is that it was a very late arrival to the Trump campaign. He didn't mention it at RNC, and first brought it up in his meandering speech at the Economic Club of NY in early September./1 www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Just a note, mostly for myself, about how "backlash" went from referring to a specific kind of reactionary mobilization against movements for equality to a much more generic term for any political counter-movement.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hey @chatterton.bsky.social Rufo, among many other things, made up evidence that Haitians were eating people's pets. Now some 500,000 Haitians who were here legally are likely going to get deported. Glad he criticized you in "good faith" though. Enjoy staying on a platform run by the administration

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

More for the "every accusation is a confession" files.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trump's 1776 Commission condemned the Progressives, its biggest targets, because they elevated experts to making decisions taking the proper function of government away from legislators and "even constitutions." No surprise that this is precisely the power that Trump is claiming via Musk and DOGE.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

lol what It’s about 160 million in 24 hours at peak. It’s a few dozen in a few minutes at a polling place. This not strenuous for a computer.

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

For the record, I engaged with the substance T.C. Williams' article by arguing that "an overriding impulse to contest and revise the historical record in service of contemporary debates" is not a "hallmark of wokeness," as he posited, but of most history writing, including by many conservatives.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Europeans seem to recall what Nazi salutes actually mean. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

American Pundits: It was an exuberant and controversial gesture of uncertain significance… Actual Fascists: It’s a Nazi salute.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

I was up in the middle of the night with a spinning mind and had the thought that the Democratic Party should start an effort to make the category Republican as odious as the term "communist" was in the middle of the twentieth century.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

The postal service is an enumerated Article I power of Congress, so this is yet another attack on the Constitution. But if Trump slashes or privatizes the USPS, it will wreak economic chaos and most hurt his own core constituencies, especially rural Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

There is very daylight between the "unitary executive theory" and Trump's assertion that he is a King, who can interpret the law--and even violate it--as he sees fit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yes, and Nate Silver in particular becoming an online gambling addict over the last few years and spending time in online gambling spaces which are full of that garbage is the missing piece

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

really underappreciated how despite being the main character of politics for literally the last decade, for a lot of people Trump is still the guy from The Apprentice

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Even though they shockingly conclude that federal workers are not, in fact, “lazy,” this is exactly the kind of framing that serves Musk and Trump’s purposes. How about, “Why Musk and DOGE Lie about the Federal Workforce?” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This is what I mean by news outlets willingly letting themselves get language-policed by the far right. You used to be able to just call this a "Nazi salute." Now it's "a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month."

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 262 comments

There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Jesus. He just doesn't give a shot about anything other than money-making and some public political theater. I mean, I knew it, but sometimes the evidence still catches your breath. So it's not just small government despotism with him, but also lazy half-assed despotism.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments